said the majority of them were in the Javascripting and only compromising the data stored in the apps using Javascripts - I'm not up with and into using smart phones or Android so I've not been following it closely. But from what the articles I've seen about the security issues it seems it's not the OS itself that's being compromised all the time, but the apps on the system due to the faults in the Javascript and almost all the developers using Javascript to write their apps.

If the cause of the security flaws is as those reports claimed, then the fault is NOT in Android it's in the Java and using non-Java apps would render the exploits useless.

And yes, Android is a variant of Linux cut back to only what the developers want in it, how much it's cut back I don;'t know so I've no idea of how much of the security system they've removed.