<story><title>Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/hardening-kernel-in-android-oreo.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mrhigat4</author><text>Android should really use a modern kernel. All the forking mess involved in Android updates is a terrible problem predicated by the lack of generic drivers on mobile devices.&lt;p&gt;Copperhead[0] has been working to apply security patches to the kernel for some time and PostMarketOS[1] has an eventual goal of using the mainline upstream kernel. Really pulling for PMOS.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;copperhead.co&amp;#x2F;android&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;copperhead.co&amp;#x2F;android&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.postmarketos.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.postmarketos.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/hardening-kernel-in-android-oreo.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>limeblack</author><text>Glad we are making it more secure.  On a side note I love that we now have &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;index.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.google&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.google&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;android-developers.googleblog.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;android-developers.googleblog.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googleblog.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (which redirects to blog.google without index.html because it appears to be the new site) which is slightly weird.</text></comment>