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PSA: Update Your Google Phones - Critical Update Now Available
March 21, 2023 at
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Just giving a heads-up. Many people might not be aware, but there's a critical vulnerability on many Android phones where a hacker can take complete control over your phone by just knowing your phone number (and wifi calling is active on your phone). Luckily Google has released an update for many of the phones vulnerable to this yesterday. You have to manually go into your Android phone and search for an update for your phone and it will push the update to you.
More details about the vulnerability: https://www.androidauth
Since so many people are affected by this I figured this was worthy of being posted!
More details about the vulnerability: https://www.androidauth
Since so many people are affected by this I figured this was worthy of being posted!
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I have an unaffected Samsung and my feeds tell me of the vulnerability, just not the patch availablity.
I click to learn. I would have been all up in that but I have the affected settings off so it didn't bother me.
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If this is truly a Slick Deal, should I start threads for every critical update on Windows, iOS, Adobe, FireFox, Chrome, and maybe even BIOS updates?
I get wanting to share the news that there's an Android update, it's important info that many people need if the phones aren't automatically notifying users, but this does not seem to me to be what SD is for.
If this is truly a Slick Deal, should I start threads for every critical update on Windows, iOS, Adobe, FireFox, Chrome, and maybe even BIOS updates?
I get wanting to share the news that there's an Android update, it's important info that many people need if the phones aren't automatically notifying users, but this does not seem to me to be what SD is for.
Start those threads if you choose, is the most obvious thing to do if you're confused.
If it's a worthy update, then it will get up voted and discussed. If it's pedantic, then it won't be.
If it's a worthy update, then it will get up voted and discussed. If it's pedantic, then it won't be.
Okay, so Slick Deals is officially just an unorganized Reddit where we start threads about everything?
The SD community has done a great job keeping threads focused on deals, or downvoting stuff that isn't a deal (even if it's about a product), other than recent stuff that's clearly sponsored or organized upvotes by bots or others. I just don't want to see SD deteriorate after it's been doing so well so long.
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The SD community has done a great job keeping threads focused on deals, or downvoting stuff that isn't a deal (even if it's about a product), other than recent stuff that's clearly sponsored or organized upvotes by bots or others. I just don't want to see SD deteriorate after it's been doing so well so long.
This one has merit I think considering the massive numbers of us that bought an affected phone that was posted on slickdeals in the first place. Hell I bet there's deals right now on those affected phones.
It's hard to hold it right.
No they didn't, so now move along.
Haha apple outside, samsung inside 🤣
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