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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Vent@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Definitely not unkillable tho

[–] heeplr@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

installing your own OS and/or bootloader is a pain and most of the time unfeasable. And that's the only way to safely kill software based backdoors.

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can't be sure it's clean.

[–] heeplr@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I'd not call it "software based" anymore.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

In total the researchers confirmed eight devices with backdoors installed—seven TV boxes, the T95, T95Z, T95MAX, X88, Q9, X12PLUS, and MXQ Pro 5G, and a tablet J5-W.

The other thing discussed is fraudulent android apps that have been removed from the play store.