Google Pixel phones sold with security vulnerability, report finds

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• astro_ray@lemdro.id ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I saw GrapheneOS is saying that it is not quite the threat as they this article suggests.

  grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112967309987371034

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• propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • lemmy_in@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Incorrect. The app was baked into the Pixel firmware from Google, not a manufacturer specific OEM.

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    • gila@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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• UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How could this happen to techbro corporations that primarily make money by selling your data? cap-think

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