Android is based on Linux, so all the security primitives and defense in depth features are there in Linux kernel, too.

How much of that a particular Linux distro will use depends on the distro maintainers.

And several of the mentioned issues apply just as well to Android. (attacker waiting with data exfiltration until the network is available, etc.)

Some issues are just hand-wavy, like the USB not being the good isolation barrier, citing a link that doesn't have anything about USB.

Android has a completely reimplemented user space on top of the (se-linux enabled) kernel. Saying that the two is one and the same is simply ignorant. They are as much the same as a human and a fish is. Just because the cells are largely the same doesn’t make them equivalent at all.

I think you have problem with reading comprehension. Linux = kernel, in my comment, if you want a hint.

That article is just a load of rubbish. The GP's point still stands.

If you check out the other HN submissions from the same site, it becomes clear that the author is ignorant on most of the topics the articles whine about, and also that there's an agenda behind it. The usual anti-user-freedom agenda that supports "modern" stuff like Wayland or Android.

Any substance to your comment? The article lists quite a few (true) claims and you refuse none of them.

Also, it shows your ignorance on the whole topic that you call wayland “anti-user-freedom agenda”.. Let me guess, you also hate systemd with a passion, right?