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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled(arstechnica.com)

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xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org
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Definitely not unkillable tho

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installing your own OS and/or bootloader is a pain and most of the time unfeasable. And that’s the only way to safely kill software based backdoors.

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Doubletwist@lemmy.world
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Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can’t be sure it’s clean.

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heeplr@feddit.de
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on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I’d not call it “software based” anymore.

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Kissaki@feddit.de
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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.

The other thing discussed is fraudulent android apps that have been removed from the play store.

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