Taking on the Attributes of Their Owners

(NY Daily News photo)

Are we talking about the phones or their owners?

Headline - New vulnerability can put Android phones into permanent vegetative state [bold added]:

Researchers have developed an attack that puts more than 50 percent of Android phones into the digital equivalent of a persistent vegetative state in which they're almost completely unresponsive and are unable to perform most functions, including making or receiving calls.

Snarky comments are too obvious and too easy.....but irresistible.