[ale] Another reason to run a 3rd-party build on your Samsung phone

[Lightner, Jeff]

What’s the chances this is a “bug” rather than something done by design?

Back when I worked for a phone company it disgusted me that back doors for almost everything have to be put in place.

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Charles Shapiro
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:23 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: [ale] Another reason to run a 3rd-party build on your Samsung phone

Samsung Android keyboard vulnerability affects Galaxy 4,5,6 phones

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/new-exploit-turns-samsung-galaxy-phones-into-remote-bugging-devices/
Oops.  As I read it, if you're running an AOSP build this won't affect you.
-- CHS
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