My FairPhone4 shows date of last Security Update: September 5. Today’s date is November 24. This cannot continue. I personally do not care about major OS updates like moving from Android 11 to 12. But I purchased my FP4 to use in a corporate network for a client, and their policies no longer accept…

[image] RSpliet: Fairphone released the last update for FP4 on the 31st of March [0] (patching up to the level of March 5th, as the April 1st level didn’t exist yet). The next update would thus have been due on the 31st of May. Let’s agree to disagree. What is important for security patches i…

As linked above, there are 3 exploits being used in the wild as we speak. That is bad. Whether or not we are 5 days late, or a month late, doesn’t really matter. Until we have the May patch we are still vulnerable.

What is important for security patches is not when Fairphone deigns releasing them, but the patch date, i.e. the cutoff date for fixes included. As linked above, there are 3 exploits being used in the wild as we speak. That is bad. Whether or not we are 5 days late, or a month late, doesn’t real…

[image] RSpliet: when it comes to Fairphone’s promise of one update every two months (with no mentions of patch level) The problem is this allows them to play with the calendar, and what you get in the end is a totally unsafe device. And if you wanted such a device, you could had bought one f…

[image] KurtF: As the saying goes, “if you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen”. What I’m saying is that they don’t do any heroics, they simply do their job, that’s what they’re paid for. No need to admire them, especially since they make such an appalling job out of it. Admiration…

[image] RSpliet: when does a phone manufacturer get access to the patches for a given patch level? Can it start integrating earlier? Some details from FP here [image] December Android updates fix critical zero-click RCE flaw The Products Easy (and fair) question, di…

I talked to ChatGPT due to another discussion where it was (as many times before here and in many different other topics) stated every other OEM is doing better than Fairphone [image] Suggestion for a Potential Collaboration Between Fairphone and GrapheneOS Compared to literally every other phon…

[image] yvmuell: while ChatGPT is surely not 100% reliable It is actually 90% unreliable… :roll_eyes: And that applies to all chatbot/AI actually available. They might occasionally and accidentally be right, but all AIs can do is smooth talking, better than most humans, and that is usually e…

Is there any hope for significant improvements on this topic or indication that it is worked on from official channels? The fairphone 6 just got the security update published on first of May at the end of June. And the updates from June are still not available…

[image] Banana: any hope for significant improvements It has always (at least since 2022 when I bought mine) been like that, even for the current flagship: Updates are usually late, period. Just check the beginnings of this thread, keeping in mind that it only appeared after an exceptionally …

FP Security Updates need to be more frequent

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yvmuell June 6, 2025, 1:04pm 840

Some details from FP here