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Is that risky have an unsupported Android version?

My Nexus 5 still working ok, some problems started when apps started to drop support of the Android version, and that happens several years before it stopped receiving OS updates.

Don't want to downplay that will be great that OS updates should be longer that the current standard, but sometimes tech minded people here in HN thinks that a day after stopped receiving updates the phone is a useless brick ais not the case.

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When the security updates stop, the phone should be wiped of personal data and isolated from both cellular and wireless networks. There should be no compromise on this, a phone has access to far too much personal information and local wifi networks to ever consider using it beyond is support lifetime. Additionally, we should all be more diligent ensuring our personal devices install security updates as soon as they are available especially before going to large events (conventions, sports games, F1, etc...) or areas which are high traffic (airports, etc..).

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Every single one of the thousands of packages you install with `npm i` has acces to your `~/.ssh`.

I want updates mostly for security reasons. If your phone hasn't received a security update in a year, I can just go check security issues that were published online, pick one that I like, and write an app that will exploit it.