What do you do with your phone when it no longer recieves new security updates after 3 or 4 years since it's launch?

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I recently bought a note 9 which at this point is close to 1.5 years old. It seems that Samsung either supports security updates for 3 or 4 years so in the next 1.5 to 2.5 years presumably my phone will no longer recieve new updates. Realistically is this a real safety concern? Should it prompt me to stop using the device? Would a VPN help regain some of the security lost when updates stop coming? What does everyone else do?



Submitted January 30, 2020 at 03:30AM by HerelnDuckburg https://ift.tt/2O8O5zZ

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