Perhaps you're not familiar with how security research works. Stopping at "is this being exploited in the wild now?" is shortsighted.

For some background, read:
https://blog.osvdb.org/2017/08...
(about "L0pht, Making the theoretical practical since 1992." )

Except there isn't a DLL hijacking vulnerability at all. The CIA "issue" is that on an already-compromised computer, an administrator-privileged attacker can replace a Notepad++ DLL with one that does something else.

Notepad++ itself cannot do anything to protect itself from being hijacked in such a way.

From the Notepad++ page (and even the Slashdot summary): "Note that once usersâ(TM) PCs are compromised, the hackers can do anything on the PCs."

Repeat after me: If my computer is compromised, there's nothing that any individual app on the system can do to protect itself from being hijacked.

There's nothing to see here.

Do you have any suggestions for such alternatives?

What am I getting for 3x the price?

You are getting a phone that won't be immediately abandoned, like most other Android phones. You are paying for the support contract.

What does one get out of a support contract? Security updates. Sure, you can save money on a cheaper phone. Just make sure that you factor in the cost of a potential device compromise due to lacking security updates.

Multiple vendors really helps the Android user to get what they want.

Sure, if it's the feature set that you're talking about. If you want a new phone that isn't abandoned update-wise a year or less after you get it, you have one Android option: the Pixel.

I am viewing that setting through the process you described. It's well-known that Uber pushed out the change to remove the "while using" option at the beginning of December. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...

I'd say that you should consider yourself lucky to be the outlier. How you got there, I have no idea...

Interesting claim. Can you please indicate where one selects "While Using" in the settings here:
http://i.imgur.com/Qb6YdLe.jpg

This is from Uber 3.225.3 on iOS 10.2.

That's what WebRTC is for. After determine your computer's internal address, it's pretty trivial to guess (or bruteforce) your router's address.

It's remotely exploitable with no user interaction if the web admin stuff is exposed to the internet. If the remote web admin is not enabled, then it's exploitable as the result of a user on the network viewing a malicious or compromised website.

Changing the IP address or subnet of your router will only stop the laziest/inept of attackers.

And yet the fix that they chose to implement STILL causes Firefox to crash. Just not in an exploitable manner. Seems kind of non-ideal to me.

The bug can be used to run any code of an attacker's choosing.

Google Desktop was discontinued over 5 years ago. What is this article even talking about?

Nit-picking about why Ubuntu isn't "Linux" won't make you many friends.

What's the point of mentioning deceptive measures of time like this? It's not like this person started from scratch, decided to jailbreak an iPhone 7, and then 24 hours later was done.

The individual likely had an iOS jailbreak, which likely chained together a number of vulnerabilities and took some undisclosed amount of time to develop, and then tweaked / confirmed it on the new hardware. The 24-hour specification means nothing.