Comment on Google Pixel phones sold with security vulnerability, report finds
propter_hog@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
According to iVerify’s report, the software was developed by a company called Smith Micro Software and appears to have been created for Verizon for in-store demos.
Saved you a click. If you don’t use Verizon, you don’t have to worry.
lemmy_in@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Incorrect. The app was baked into the Pixel firmware from Google, not a manufacturer specific OEM.
gila@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
If it was simply not included in the stock rom rather than being made inactive except for in the OEM rom, you’d still have a device with a bunch of active bloatware
propter_hog@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
I didn’t read that in the article, but I could have missed it. Did it say it was all pixels, or just the ones slated for Verizon?