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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Vent@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Definitely not unkillable tho

[–] heeplr@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Where are the hackers when you need them?

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