![]() The dose of reality will hit home, once you realize how, custom ROMs have a better advantage over stock ROMs, they are compiled from source code and is publicly available, such as CyanogenMod, AOSP, CAF, AOKP rest assured, you will be equally better off with those ROMs in the long term. Now, not to induce fear or paranoia into anyone, which I certainly would not wish to do so, it helps to have a cool collected thoughts about this. ![]() It does show one thing and one thing alone, Stock ROMs! All too often people can be naive in thinking that just because its "Stock ROM", it does its job. Just give the magic, hard-coded password to get a root shell: Serves no function besides providing a root shell backdoor on theĭevice. There is a setuid-root application at /system/bin/sync_agent that The United States on MetroPCS, made by Chinese telecom ZTE The ZTE Score M is an Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) phone available in For the sake of historical information, I'll quote it here in case it gets lost. Yes it is quite possible that there are back-doors available to do just that kind of thing, and is commonly associated with stock ROMs straight from the factory! Zte had one, and was reported a while ago and its publicly available on pastebin. (Ok, am not really sure if they are trolling us with that ticker but questionable as it was stated on the wikipedia that is " deployed in over 150million devices" heck it aint even there!!!) What I was emphasizing, is how the paranoia made its way into the norms of human emotions - yes, a lot of people were really mad and demanded to know - was there a breach of privacy?īy the way, if you look on the main Carrier-IQ site here, there's a ticker that states as of now, 147,918,175 handsets deployed. And exposed the ruse behind it, all of a sudden that hype fed its way into the Android world, and guess what happened - an app appeared on the Google Play Store, Carrier-IQ detector. Thing is, no one really know for certain if they actually did, as the security world got "excited" about it and started to slam-back on the manufacturers - Apple, HTC, Samsung, Sony, to name but a few. The company says that its software is deployed in over 150 It provides diagnostic analysis of smartphones to the wireless A bit about the Carrier-IQ as quoted from wikipedia Recently, as far back as the start of this year, there was uproar over a small piece of software which was hidden in certain handsets, and was able to monitor everything - the infamous Carrier-IQ. Is this possible one Android phones and is there a way to block it? Therefore allowing you to review the components for unwanted modules. There have been attempts to create open source hardware and software for smartphones. But if the app came with a silent install method, who knows if the permission for the microphone was also silently given? And now, how can I protect my privacy?Īs soon as you buy a piece of hardware/software without having the ability to verify the hardware and software components for surveillance backdoors, you are lost.īut there are alternatives. which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call.Īndroid apps are able to activiate the microphone if they have the permission to to so. But no one can rule out that there is a silent install method too. But the notification about the new app stays in the notification bar. Usually you will see visual feedback about the installation process, at least until it's running. That's possible and every time you install an app over the Play Store web interface you use this technique. ![]() "remotely install a piece of software on to any handset. Either because they bought this access or because the manufacturer is forced to, for example by a (secret) government regulation. But basically every hardware/software manufacturer, whose parts are placed within smartphone (or traditional mobile phone), is able to install backdoors in his products, which could by used third parties to manipulate the device. Google is certainly able to do so, if you are using a Google Services enabled device (usually the ones with "by Google" on the back). But first, let use investigate the statement step by step: And since no one knows if it's possible you can't block it, because you don't know what and therefore how to block. It may be possible, no one can say for sure. Ahh, Schneier on Security, Unvy gb gur Xvat.
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