A ticket gets opened, it gets fixed.
If a ticket gets opened, it gets fixed. Or if a hacker finds it first, by reading the code, and exploits it without reporting it, as happened on Android recently.
And the apps go thru no review process at all. There are pluses and minuses to both models. And there is more than on closed source operating system out there. You just have to weight the risks and rewards and make the decision appropriate for you.
A couple thoughts:
No smartphones for me. I want control, or forget having the device. I don’t want auto updates on anything.
The only way something can get in is if something is listening or malicious code installs itself.
I keep only software that I want installed; my ports are essentially all not listening. And I know for a fact that nothing has changed, so there’s no new software that I don’t know about, no update, etc., that planted itself in my machine and by default is a hacker magnet. I do everything in paranoid mode.
I don’t want to deal with software on a simple device like a phone, then actually conduct personal transactions on it, save personal data on it, etc.
Unix in general is just a pc-like O/S, i.e., the default file systems are primitive. Root can write to executable files. It’s idiotic. It was never intended to be what it is today, that is, having to exist in the free-for-all unsecure world.
I would much prefer that several proprietary OSs were competing and available to give me a choice, but M$ killed all of them off.
Open Source works and it’s cheap. It’s also rinky-tink in terms of arbitrary, cryptic, cutesy naming conventions, commands that have bazillion options for a truckload of functionality in one command etc. TC/IP is nuts, IMHO.
But... at least I’m not paying thousands per year to M$ for the same amount of goofy complexity and having the whole thing change every 5 years or so. M$ is constant BS that one has to pay exhorbitant amounts for. An old executable on linux has a good shot a running.
IMHO, after 50 years, there should be OSs that had the core functions, be rock solid and cheap.
Yeh, I agree 100%, ya pay yer money, ya take yer choice.