Many of these exploits don’t require that the person using the phone even knows they’re in use bud. You do you, but know that you’re phone will likely be hijacked to be used as a crypto miner at best. At worst literally all your data will be exfiltrated.

Exxon has known the damage they were causing since at least the 80s and have spent absurd amounts of money alongside their competitors lobbying governments and paying scientists to keep the status quo. We had at least some evidence that burning fossil fuels was going to cause global warming at the turn of the 20th century.

What you’re saying isn’t entirely false, but it sure is bending over backwards to be nice to the capitalist societies that caused this problem. Also there aren’t any communist countries causing this problem, China is every bit as capitalist as the US in how their economy functions these days, they’re communist in name only. You’ve been influenced by capitalist propaganda friend.

There are literally hundreds of security vulnerabilities in Android 8 and 9.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224/product_id-19997/version_id-564242/Google-Android-8.0.html

Several of which allow remote code execution (meaning if exploited, attacker would have full control of your device, likely without you knowing). These vulnerabilities can be exploited a number of different ways, for example, this one would just require that your Bluetooth radio is turned on- https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2021-0316/

This one just requires that you open a text message an attacker sends you- https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2020-8899/

This one just requires NFC on your device to be on (which most phones have and is usually on by default) https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2020-0073/

Don’t run old OSes. 90% of the reason new versions come out is to fix these issues.

Am I missing something? Where’s the admittance to performing cosmetic surgery on puppies?