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For a start, they could try to fix vulnerabilities in Jelly Bean's webview[1] and urge manufacturers and carriers to push updates to their phones, since 46% of the market is apparently still Jelly Bean[2]

Of course, it's an uphill battle with the manufacturers/carriers. But as long as Google is not applying fixes to Jelly Bean, the manufacturers can always blame Google.

[1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/01/23/google-issues-offici...

[2] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html



The Android security lead has posted a statement on this issue, explaining what is and is not being done, and why: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AdrianLudwig/posts/1md7ruEwBLF




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