A security researcher tells Motherboard that he’s already discovered 40 zero-day vulnerabilities in the Tizen code. That means these are security flaws that have not been previously disclosed, and which could be use to infect your device with malware.
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This is unfortunate that Samsung Tizen devices has so many security vulnerabilities.
I got a feeling Samsung may take a long time to fix all 40 of these security problems, or discontinue Tizen before they can fully fix all security problems . Tizen marketshare is smaller than other operating systems like Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, so it won't be surprising if Tizen becomes discontinue like Firefox OS, Symbian, and Web OS which all have very few users compared to Android and iOS.
I think one of the benefits of using an Android phone is that you can root it, and install a more secure Custom Android ROM, or buy a secure Android phone from Blackberry which makes phones which are more secure and private than other Android smartphones.
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This is unfortunate that Samsung Tizen devices has so many security vulnerabilities.
I got a feeling Samsung may take a long time to fix all 40 of these security problems, or discontinue Tizen before they can fully fix all security problems . Tizen marketshare is smaller than other operating systems like Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, so it won't be surprising if Tizen becomes discontinue like Firefox OS, Symbian, and Web OS which all have very few users compared to Android and iOS.
I think one of the benefits of using an Android phone is that you can root it, and install a more secure Custom Android ROM, or buy a secure Android phone from Blackberry which makes phones which are more secure and private than other Android smartphones.
