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| The Chinese Would NEVER Backdoor Phones, Right? in forum [Market-Ticker]
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Jdough
Posts: 8
Incept: 2012-05-04
The Lone Star State
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Not surprising at all, the Israelis are known for this as well when it comes to telecom equipment.
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Dudefish
Posts: 46
Incept: 2010-02-20
Birmingham, Ala.
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I am shocked, shocked I tell you!
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Sgtmilstar
Posts: 47
Incept: 2009-03-23
San Bernardino, CA
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Or Modems..... LOL
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Tallystick
Posts: 2230
Incept: 2009-09-20
Online
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Military chips....
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Lowbeyond
Posts: 16907
Incept: 2008-02-11
CO aka West NJ/East CA
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Maybe it was a birdy bread-bomber from the future?!
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Randy123
Posts: 5785
Incept: 2008-09-24
Earth
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I'm sure the iJunk has this **** as well.
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China is the Enemy. Wake Up.
New Normal. Same As The Old Awful.
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Asimov
Posts: 104013
Incept: 2007-08-26
East Tennessee Eastern Time
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You just pretty much have to assume that there's a backdoor built into just about every electronic device nowdays.
Especially the ones made in china.
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It's justifiably immoral to deal morally with an immoral entity.
If you trade based on what other people say, you will lose money. Especially what I say. I won't be held responsible. Festina lente.
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Aaabond
Posts: 117
Incept: 2009-06-11
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Have this exact same phone, curious when the fix will come out. I ran the above command and got the same results.
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Genesis
Posts: 130751
Incept: 2007-06-26
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From the "#"
# mount -o remount,rw /system
# rm /system/bin/sync_agent
That should take care of that.
Note that once you do that it's really gone. If you want root make sure you have it via a means you like first.
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What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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Badges
Posts: 45
Incept: 2010-12-30
Massachusetts
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Didn't the DOD block Vain from selling 3Com( routers ) to a hooked upped Chinese guy? 3Com that was out of Brookline, Ma. Same home town as Mittens.
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Brewcrew2
Posts: 149
Incept: 2011-02-18
New Jersey
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I remember the days when you didn't want to reflash your devices with homegrown ROMs or firmware because of the possibility of backdoors built in. Now the stock factory stuff has the backdoors already included. More down-is-up.
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Eleua
Posts: 14031
Incept: 2007-07-05
N 47.72/ W 122.55
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I love free trading with our enemies. Cue Bezzle's "ambiguous collective" horse**** in 3...2...1... 
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Goldmanssack
Posts: 1079
Incept: 2009-07-08
There is no pain, you are receding
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****, Low....you just made me realize how old I really am with those pics.
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Aaabond
Posts: 117
Incept: 2009-06-11
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Thanks Genesis, Backed up the sync_agent file to my computer just in case then deleted it from the phone and restarted it. I already had root access to the phone through other means.
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Daniel
Posts: 40
Incept: 2010-05-06
Houston
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Yet another reason to junk my Android. Smartphones are too much of a ******n privacy risk.
Reason: Off Topic
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Irritatedcitizen
Posts: 72
Incept: 2011-05-20
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Would you prefer an open operating system or security through obscurity (the Apple model), Daniel? This is no feature of Android. In the security industry we say "if they have physical access, you've already lost."
Guess who by definition has physical access to every device? The manufacturers. Good thing we went to a service economy and shipped all of that overseas! Wait.
In all seriousness, I am still using an ancient flip phone without text messaging. You want to talk to me, you call and talk to me. Screw every last one of the USA carriers and their predatory billing policies.
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Nuke_engineer
Posts: 2699
Incept: 2007-08-19
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Veeeery Interesting.....but not funny.
Glad I'm using QNX and not Android.
Another reason it's time to get away from UNIX and its variants in embedded and consumer systems.
The fallout should be interesting.
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Marvinmartian
Posts: 751
Incept: 2011-03-16
Pasadena, CA
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I wonder, will a software update to the next version of Android from the same vender include a copy of this backdoor, or will it be more cleverly hidden? There is an interesting talk on embedded computer security, detailing how such things as heart defibrillators, automobiles, voting machines, etc. have been compromised by their wireless networks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla....Credit: Bruce Schneier's April Crypto-Gram newsletter. |
Nocents
Posts: 187
Incept: 2009-08-26
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Rupert M might be interested in this technology...
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Gable
Posts: 413
Incept: 2009-07-04
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I never went the Smart phone route because I have to have a phone that can survive the washing machine...  The other day I was returning from a trip when I was on a shuttle. My wife called and I let her know my ETA...When I hung up, a teenager-looking kid looked at me me in amazement and asked, "Did you just pull an antenna out of your phone?"...
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Rvacha
Posts: 8295
Incept: 2008-10-03
Cleveland
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I don't think it is reasonable to assume that dumbphones never have a backdoor
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"I suggest you panic." - Hugh Hendry
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Xkn
Posts: 18
Incept: 2011-04-30
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Chinese have been providing various backdoors on USB memory keys (via self-installing autoexec scripts) for years. Nothing new here... This is less about stealing someone's credit card number, more about classical intelligence
gathering. A chinese government sanctioned intelligence gathering.
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Don24mac
Posts: 43
Incept: 2007-11-26
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"Financial industry announces guidelines for mobile payments in Canada" http://www.cba.ca/en/media-room/65-news-....They're just waiting for the Mobil Payment Apps to start transactions through your bank account. Then these backdoors on these smartphones will really come in handy.
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