Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @10:22AM from the caught-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Developers of the Free Software Foundation-endorsed Replicant OS have uncovered a backdoor through Android on Samsung Galaxy devices and the Nexus S. The research indicates the proprietary Android versions have a blob handling communication with the modem using Samsung's IPC protocol and in turn there's a set of commands that allow the modem to do remote I/O operations on the phone's storage. Replicant's open-source version of Android does away with the Samsung library to fend off the potential backdoor issue."

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Re: OTA updates by Anonymous Coward · 2014-03-12 21:57 · Score: 0, Troll

Because it's Samsung and Android instead of Apple, perhaps?
If Apple did this, it would be an absolute Apple hate-fest. People here are defending Samsung's actions and debating whether this was an intentional back door or not. Who are the fan-boys again?