Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
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Re: Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
#2I've had the Pixel 1 for almost three years now. Solid phone. But I always knew it had a manufacturer-installed backdoor. Does anyone know on the progress on GNU/Linux, privacy-focused phones?
Re: Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
#3How strange that this wasn’t discovered and revealed by Project Zero. How did they miss this?
Re: Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
#4I've had the Pixel 1 for almost three years now. Solid phone. But I always knew it had a manufacturer-installed backdoor. Does anyone know on the progress on GNU/Linux, privacy-focused phones?
Yes, I'm sure a GNU/Linux phone will have fewer bugs... hahahaha
Re: Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
#5I've had the Pixel 1 for almost three years now. Solid phone. But I always knew it had a manufacturer-installed backdoor. Does anyone know on the progress on GNU/Linux, privacy-focused phones?
In no particular order, here's the ones I've been following:
-https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
-https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
I'm the most optimistic about Postmarket in the long run, but the others are actual hardware so there's that.
Re: Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
#6How strange that this wasn’t discovered and revealed by Project Zero. How did they miss this?
Also it doesn't seem to be getting as much press as you'd expect for something this widespread :(
Re: Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
#7With all the news of vulnerabilities in Android recently, as well as the fact that most Android phones come with spyware from the manufacturer preinstalled, it is clear that Android is pure garbage. I hope Microsoft takes note and decides to get back in the game with Windows mobile very soon.
Re: Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
#8I've had the Pixel 1 for almost three years now. Solid phone. But I always knew it had a manufacturer-installed backdoor. Does anyone know on the progress on GNU/Linux, privacy-focused phones?
What backdoor? The flaw described uses a user-installed malicious application to exploit a bug in the permission system (which also must be user approved). I dont see any claim or evidence of a manufacturer backdoor.
Re: Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
#9Of course hardware switches for the mic/camera/baseband are out of the question...
Re: Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds of Millions’ Affected
#10Of course hardware switches for the mic/camera/baseband are out of the question...
I would think ≫99% of users would forever keep it switched “on”, and of those, many would think their phone broke down if they accidentally switched it “off”.
⇒ yes, it is out of the question, even though some fraction of users would like to have it.