Saint Stagefright, Who Had Stage Fright

Patron of MMS messages, videos that open themselves, and phones the manufacturer never updated.

Life

In the summer of 2015 Joshua Drake of Zimperium found a series of flaws in libstagefright, the library Android uses to read media files. Sending an MMS with a malformed video was enough: the phone processed it by itself to build the preview, and the attacker's code took the stage before the victim had even touched the screen. Nearly a billion devices were at risk, and ever since Google has published monthly security bulletins.

Prayer

O Saint Stagefright, who performs though nobody bought a ticket, keep our phones from opening what nobody asked to see. Amen.

How to celebrate

Celebrated by disabling MMS auto-download and installing this month's patch, if the manufacturer ever shipped it.

Automatic preview, curtains for the phone.