[ocdtrekkie]

This is a particularly weird space because people have generally not been concerned about security in segments unlikely to be profitable to attack: Modder communities have generally been full of hacked or modified apps and operating systems, published by random unknown people all over the world, and generally haven't been that scary, because there's no financial incentive to attack. Attackers are generally looking for a large number of victims or particularly valuable targeted data.

Attacking the PinePhone is... ridiculous... there's almost no reason to do so, with few users, almost none of which who would pay a ransom or who has sensitive state actor data available. And the fact that it's such a useless attack vector is also why nobody had their guard up on executing code there.

[csdvrx]

> Attacking the PinePhone is... ridiculous...

It serves as a warning: security matters everywhere.

[garbagecoder]

This is it, right here. No one gets a pass, even something that is largely a hobby.

[tssva]

"Some men just want to watch the world burn."