An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat

  • Lumisal@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Because Israel has shown itself to be trustworthy when it comes to software /s

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      2 months ago

      Israel don’t make Android. Apps can’t override how android disables apps at an OS level.

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          2 months ago

          You think Android lets apps override their app disabling feature? You should report that to Google, they’d be shocked to hear it.

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            2 months ago

            Yes. It’s not the first time it’s been done either. Then there’s the loopholes as well, like Meta was doing recently.

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              1 month ago

              Apps that have been disabled at a system level cannot run.

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                1 month ago

                Sure, you tell yourself that buddy. Israel is happy for you to believe it.

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                  1 month ago

                  Go tell Google, they’ll pay you millions in big bounties for how Israel is doing this. Unless of course you have zero evidence that app developers can do this in Android……

                  Yeh thought so.

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                    1 month ago

                    You don’t have evidence that Israeli app developers can’t do this either.

                    It’s almost as of we’re lacking the money, skills, and manpower of a nation or something.