And another one:
Android malware spies on you even after phone is shut down
This is getting ridiculous.
Android malware spies on you even after phone is shut down
This is getting ridiculous.
Will You Trust a Chinese Smartphone?
- Thread starter Daniel Nenni
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hist78
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It said: "The latest AVG antivirus products can detect this threat, but the company still advises users to take the battery out of their phone if they really want to be sure their phone is off."
It's not that easy to take out the battery from many popular smart phones sold today! Every time I did that, I'm worry to break the case.
Daniel Payne
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hist78,
I remove the battery every day on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and replace it with a fully charged battery. No issues after 2 years of continuous swapping.
I remove the battery every day on my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and replace it with a fully charged battery. No issues after 2 years of continuous swapping.
hist78
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Great! So you are ready to prevent your own phone to spy on yourself
. Like Dan said, this is getting ridiculous. First we have Samsung's Smart TV capable (not necessarily intentionally) to listen our private conversation. Then we have this hard drive bug (might be sponsored by NSA) that is capable to see everything on our computers. Then we have this man-in-the-middle Superfish malware/adware installed by our friends at Lenovo.
Are we at the beginning of chaos? How much we really know and how much we really can control on our smart devices?
hist78
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THE GREAT SIM HEIST HOW SPIES STOLE THE KEYS TO THE ENCRYPTION CASTLE
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/
"The company targeted by the intelligence agencies, Gemalto, is a multinational firm incorporated in the Netherlands that makes the chips used in mobile phones and next-generation credit cards. Among its clients are AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and some 450 wireless network providers around the world. The company operates in 85 countries and has more than 40 manufacturing facilities. One of its three global headquarters is in Austin, Texas and it has a large factory in Pennsylvania.
In all, Gemalto produces some 2 billion SIM cards a year."
Those chips are not only used for mobile phones but also for credit cards!
Now the new question is who else has been compromised?
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/
"The company targeted by the intelligence agencies, Gemalto, is a multinational firm incorporated in the Netherlands that makes the chips used in mobile phones and next-generation credit cards. Among its clients are AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and some 450 wireless network providers around the world. The company operates in 85 countries and has more than 40 manufacturing facilities. One of its three global headquarters is in Austin, Texas and it has a large factory in Pennsylvania.
In all, Gemalto produces some 2 billion SIM cards a year."
Those chips are not only used for mobile phones but also for credit cards!
Now the new question is who else has been compromised?
Hmmm ... Weren't Apple the ones to lose all that private user information a few months ago???
Sounds like Apple want to compete with Paypal or Visa or something. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them! And I've never seen a product of theirs that wasn't made in China anyway (mostly by Foxcon or some such).
Joe.