If you look at CVEs in Android a lot of them are tied to proprietary Qualcomm binaries. Its crazy how your GPU driver can be exploited to get root access.

If Qualcomm wasn’t so dependent on their vendor kernel that ships with tons of binary blobs it would be lot more secure.

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    23 hours ago

    Maybe I did a bad job of phrasing this?

    I’m saying that the bulk of Android security issues come from Qualcomm binaries

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      22 hours ago

      If Android wasn’t so dependent on Qualcomm binary blobs it would be lot more secure.

      might be more accurate?