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by pciexpgpu 928 days ago
Theory meets practice. An automated theorem proves that knows about Android view hierarchy, Parcelables, Android kernel well really entirety of SELinux not to mention whatever Bluetooth firmware drivers seems quite a bit of boiling the ocean.

The actual device (not the app) does seem poorly engineered and not at all fail safe / provided with ‘might kill the patient’ error handling.

Seems like double whammy where an app and hardware conspire against its user.

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In a way you are right, but all that stuff (Android, Parcelables, Android kernel) is garbage. Time to replace all of that with a proper formally proven stack. It's not that Apple or Google don't have the money to do that. They just don't have the will, knowledge and engineers for that.