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Chinese handset manufacturers are putting spyware on Android products to glean bank account numbers
2018-01-27
Extreme Tech savvy mobile folks:
It looks like Chinese handset manufacturers are putting spyware (teddymobile) on Android products to glean bank account numbers, titles, and a lot of other private information:
[Twitter] The @OnePlus #clipboard app contains a strange file called badword.txt 🤔

In these words, we can find: Chairman, Vice President, Deputy Director, Associate Professor, Deputy Heads, General, Private Message, shipping, Address, email, ...

https://pastebin.com/kfvJWKJB
With the lost FBI text messages we see the FBI using Android. One hopes they were smart enough to WIPE the whole phone before using and put a clean version of Android approved by the FBI on the phone. Sadly I can't credit them with showing that much caution. The person who pointed this out to me used to be head of 1/2 of the Android product line at a major manufacturer so it was serious enough for him to warn his friends.
Posted by:3dc

#1  With modern pretend-open-source software, it basically amounts to: only the hardware manufacturers are allowed to make money, software writers aren't, and Americans aren't allowed to make any hardware. But no, you can't see what's in the binary blobs that come with the software, and you can't put a generic version of linux or android on the phone either.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2018-01-27 01:37  

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