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Which makes it a Chinese company, yes...
Regardless of border politics, Taiwan has its own government
Yes, it's called the Republic of China...
Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
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Re: Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
#102ALL Android phones users should go NOW and instal NoRoot Firewall. This will catch anything running over the OS (but I feel it wouldn't catch any rootkit). What information is missing in the article is "which app is leaking the data"? On all rooted android phones you can advise on uninstall xyz and be done with it. Then you can take screenshots and make a nice post in your blog. Unfortunately I don't own a Nokia 7 to…
Edit: just notice that autocorrect changed my: "adb pm uninstall XYZ"
Re: Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
#103It's shameful of Google (but totally expected) that they don't supervise the Android One program AT ALL. All of the Android One mobiles appear on the top list of their Android One microsite and I'm sure most of them contain malware built-in. https://www.android.com/one/ Having said this, I never expected Nokia to be doing that, too. Both Nokia and HMD are Finnish, do they really need to outsource the creation of the…
This really stings. I purposefully chose a Nokia for exactly these reasons - Android One and European.
Re: Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
#104This is related to com.qualcomm.qti.autoregistration.apk :
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/191883/
https://github.com/bcyj/android_tools_leeco_msm8996/blob/mas...
Re: Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
#105Please don't assume this is a one-time event, or that it is specific to this brand or even to Chinese manufacturers. Nokia could actually be in the best half on that aspect, just got unlucky. Most of such info leaks are hidden. I've already witnessed several OEM firmwares sending informations to many different parties. Too often, this is done through http, with payload encrypted. But it's always symmetrical encryptio…
> On Samsung Galaxy S9+ simply listing apps that can install apps silently (which is the master of all permissions Wait... what? Why is there such a permission in the first place?
> Why is there such a permission in the first place?
Google Play and F-droid require it in order to update apps automatically.
Essentially, you give one app a permission to install other apps. Whether it notifies you or not, it's up to the app.
Re: Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
#106It's shameful of Google (but totally expected) that they don't supervise the Android One program AT ALL. All of the Android One mobiles appear on the top list of their Android One microsite and I'm sure most of them contain malware built-in. https://www.android.com/one/ Having said this, I never expected Nokia to be doing that, too. Both Nokia and HMD are Finnish, do they really need to outsource the creation of the…
HMD is Finnish, but AFAIK they have zero own software development in Finland. Not sure whether it is public knowledge where they buy the SW from. Of course the Google part is known, but I assume the application reported here is not from Google.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your title wasn't really great honestly, unfortunately this community is often based first impressions.
Or more bluntly: click bait wins. Now you don’t get away with taboola style headlines here, they have to be more sophisticated, but they need to grab interest.
Clear headlines that put the most salient information in the headline are not clickbait. The headline on this post is not clickbait.
Re: Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
#108Very nice of the Chinese military to choose a .cn domain so even the Norwegians can see what is going on ...
It is obviously a bug / lazy programmer / broken project management. A phone with most of it components bought from China and in one of the many configurations just copied from the supplier's examples there was an URL which was supposed to be changed but didn't. In other words - a non-story or at most a story about quality issues at the reborn Nokia. But luckily the URL pointed to China ... so we can make the story a…
Huh? It's more than just that; the Android build comes littered with software from an unscrupulous source, even on phones that are supposed to be close to a clean version of Android.
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People inside China are very aware of it; most just don't care that much. They (willingly, if not happily) trade what westerners might consider pillars of freedom for widespread prosperity. When you consider the progress China has made over the last 50 years from the perspective of a typical Chinese citizen, you can see why they make that bargain.
>People inside China are very aware of it; most just don't care that much. The OP said they don't talk about it. Doesn't mean they don't care about it much. It is simply they don't have any means, tools or action they could do to change it.
> they don't have any means, tools or action they could do to change it.
This isn't true at all. China is one of the only places in the developed world where the populace legitimately could topple the government, simply by sheer mass.
Why do you think the party works so diligently to quell dissent and organization while going to extreme lengths to prop up the economy? It would be nearly impossible to hold on to power if the people turned, but nobody is interested in that while they (or their children) can live in a nice apartment and take a holiday in Europe once in a while.
Re: Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server
#110I knew of that 9 months ago, but nobody was interested so I dropped it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17329825
What model? 5,6,7? Or you think all?
I have a Nokia 3 and a Nokia 7.0 Plus, both had a bunch of com.evenwell.* packages installed.
I think all HMD devices have those packages.