Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
arstechnica.com
Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.
  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
    4•1 year ago

    Samsung historically has had a habit of poaching features from their Smart TVs as they age, eventually leaving you with a not so smart TV after a decade or so. Not sure if other manufacturers do the same

    • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Aha! Yeah that’s okay with me, since we just disable their internet hook computers up, to use them as dumb monitors.

    • asudoxEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      What a realistic approach! A thing getting dumber as it ages, what a great idea!

      /s