ghostBonesOct 7, 2023

Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

https://lemmy.world/post/6465002

Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled - Lemmy.world

“In total the researchers confirmed eight devices with backdoors installed—seven TV boxes, the T95, T95Z, T95MAX, X88, Q9, X12PLUS, and MXQ Pro 5G, and a tablet J5-W. (Some of these have also been identified by other security researchers looking into the issue in recent months).”

Show threadOttomateeverythingOct 7, 2023

Clarifying “Android” here feels misleading. Sure, they’re all Android devices, but they’re not what people think of when they think of Android devices. And they’re also unlikely to be the ones most people buy.

You could also say “cheap Chinese TV boxes” and it’d still be accurate, and the devices people would think of would be more closely related to the actual devices in question.

This has basically nothing to do with Android. You might as well say “plastic TV boxes” at that point.

Show threadBappity
agreed! what a pointless inclusion of Android in the headline. clearly trying to paint a bad picture for them
Oct 7, 2023 at 11:01pmWeb