FSF: Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy back-door
FSF: Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy back-door
The Free Software Foundation has put out a
release claiming that developers working on the Replicant fork of
Android have found a backdoor on Samsung Galaxy handsets. "While
working on Replicant, a fully free/libre version of Android, we discovered
that the proprietary program running on the applications processor in
charge of handling the communication protocol with the modem actually
implements a back-door that lets the modem perform remote file I/O
operations on the file system. This program is shipped with the Samsung
Galaxy devices and makes it possible for the modem to read, write and
delete files on the phone's storage. On several phone models, this program
runs with sufficient rights to access and modify the user's personal
data.
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