ATTENTION: anyone that uses a Chinese smartphone, immediately disconnect your phone, factory reset, and sell your phone.
Chinese companies have been found to have secretly installed backdoors on Chinese-made smartphones that secretly sends back data including phone number, location, all text messages and calls, apps, contents of phone, etc.
Companies found (so far) to have secretly spied on users: Huawei, ZTE, and BLU.
nytimes.com
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engadget.com
kryptowire.com
twitter.com
What models specifically? The article just mentions brands
>Sup Forums told me to buy the new ZTE axon
fuckign faggots every recommendation you've made me turns out shitt
I prefer chinese botnet over american botnet any day
BLU is an american company.
Also, as I say in all the GNU/Linux tinfoil hat threads:
"Why do I care?"
They gave me a great phone, and great features for a great price. They wanna see me asking another dude if he wants to eat my ass tonight? Okay. Why do I give a fuck. They can come eat my ass too. I wanna get my ass eaten.
This... the Chinese are far less malicious than the US government.
If they wanna bother translating Serbian to Chink just so they can see what I wrote about my boss then go for it
>the same brands that have been religiously shilled on Sup Forums for months
Wow, what a "coincidence".
> trusting Sup Forums, ever
You must be new here.
Fun Fact:
Every affordable device has backdoors in it somewhere. Some are even sold as features, like android.
Your data is valuable, and companies don't want to pay for it. It doesn't even matter if a - for instance - bluetooth-module manufacturer can use the data for itself, but someone working there can sure as hell sell the access and has a motif to create it.
Any Alcatel phones affected?
you should assume that any phone not already outed simply hasn't been checked yet.
This is so fucking asinine.
Bullshit sensationalism... As for me, I debloated the shit outta my chinky androidinky, firewalled it, modded the system. Not an app can fart and call back home without me knowing. Google is the main problem here. Not poor chinkoes.
YFW when it's hardware level.
>this is bullshit
>also i took precautions
so it's not bullshit. it might be wrong, but you clearly acted in response to that perceived threat.
stop acting like retards, Sup Forums.
>secretly sends back data including phone number, location, all text messages and calls, apps, contents of phone, etc.
Sounds like the same shit that American botnet does anyway.
This, i'd rather give my data to Chairman Mao.
Bullshit. Chinks never innovate and they don't have the tech for building backdoors in hardware.
chink posters please go
nsa shill pls go
>i'd rather be watched by chairman mao! that's not so bad guys!
stop normalizing being monitored by governments. at least we have some loose connection to influencing american policy, you fucking retarded chink. you don't even have proper elections
>at least we have some loose connection to influencing american policy
lmao
If you live in US, then the US government can arrest you based on data collected by NSA, but the Chinese government can't do shit to you. Retard.
>the Chinese government can't do shit to you
it can do shit to you, chinky mcChinkerson
the chinese government has been the most irresponsible and aggressive belligerent on the planet with regard to cyber warfare. *maybe* russia competes with china. maybe.
if you think china can't do anything to you, you're somehow living in some fantasy world where you have technology but bad things can't happen to you because of technology.
Learn to capitalize first, fake chink.
At least they will not bomb you based on metadata
ahhh you got me i'm criticizing the chinese government which obviously makes me a chink. and i would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for your keen observation of the fact that i don't bother to capitalize sentences like some chink or pajeet who learned english in a strict english second language classroom.
>tfw yesterday everyone was a pajeet
>now everyone is a chink
can't wait to be the japanese girl
>tfw you will never be a kawaii japanese girl
>Bought a Xiaomi
>Using google voice to text
>Using google voice for free home phone
user, the battle is lost. just let it happen and embrace our chinoogle overlords.
google isn't chinese, dumb dumb.
you lost two battles. or, more accurately, you lost one and then decided you'd give up on another.
No shit. This is what everyone has been saying from the start.
It is factored into the purchase decision - the phones are cheap for the hardware in exchange for the Chinese botnet threat.
This. All day, everyday.
So when do you give me the public service message about Google/NSA?
"Attention everyone, if you carry a mobile phone, you are pwned." -- Richard Stallman
And then everyone laughs like he's some sort of crackpot.
>tfw my gf is
feels good man. pity I can't find a phone that fits my autistic requirements yet
now both the NSA and chinks can look at the porn i have on my phone! weww
>tfw you're Taiwanese so you hate both China and US
>Tfw you know both countries are shit
>Tfw they're now fighting on an image based website about how their governments monitors each other
Sent from my CM13 Zenfone™ Selfie (Designed in Taiwan, assembled by Chinks)
Got an honor 8
One of the worst designed phones
Slips off everything cause of this shit glass.
Sigh... more cold war propaganda .
implying both of them aren't monitoring you and having plans for you in the future tm
also
> hating US
kek faggot
>literally chinese botnet
LMAO
POORFAGS BTFO
keep LARPing faggot
if you're not spying for the chinks, no one's going to even bother trying to get a FISA request on you
Sounds like the faggot BS, the USA subjected us and their citizenry to every single fucking day, on every single fucking made-in-us overpriced shittech.
I had it with fucking Google/FB/YT selling my ass to fucking Ad Faggotry.
Fuck it. Heil Mao!
So which phone has the least security problems?
iPhones, everything tracked by Apple
Android, all data sent to Google with fragmented updates
Chinese phones, all data sent to Google plus sent to China
Blackberry, bankrupted
Fucking anti-chink shills. This is STOCK ROM, which you should never use. Read the article.
I've been telling people ZTE is a shit brand and you didn't listen. Your fault faggots.
Hey I used to live in qingdao. I miss the cheap beer.
Implying every phone isn't some insecure piece of shit.
> beer in a bag
fucking why.
During summer, street peasants buy a keg of shitty beer and sell it to you as you are walking down the street. The bag is a novelty for some reason. You can generally also get it in a cup instead.
What are you supposed to use if your only options are the stock ROM and a buggy unofficial port of CM maintained by someone whose first name is "Shuresh"?
Theres those high security phones, that use a hacked version of Android and "secure" hardware.
Or you can go old school with a dumb phone i guess.
>sends my data to the chinese
Shota is legal there, right?
KILL URSELF FUCKEN HOMO
ROFL
I had always the suspect my Huawei p9 lite was taking pics even when idling because sometimes I can hear the mechanisms of the autofocus moving even when I'm not using the camera. I need to root and firewall this shit
*spoiler* unless you are willing to build your ROM from scratch everything has a backdoor. If you're really anal about nobotnet get a dumb phone and a registration free prepaid SIM (and even that's not a guarantee)
A good one tho
alcatel is french. already affected by french, british, american botnets.
Get a case faggot, slippery problem solved. Though for some reason the back glass seams to be fragile as fuck. It managed to get tiny scratches with the case still on. Still great phone though. Should be getting N within the next few weeks. CM also popped up this week, but it's not really useable as daily driver.
if this is true, how would I go about getting rid of the botnet?
Also, wouldn't be relatively easy to track outgoing requests from the phone? Why is this a thing only now?
Bruh are oneplus phones affected?
kryptowire.com
>contained firmware that collected sensitive personal data about their users and transmitted this sensitive data to third-party
>All of the data collection and transmission capabilities we identified were supported by two system applications
Pick one
Not trying to say that those phones aren't full of backdoors, but this source is absolutely terrible
if have a alcatel phone. am I safe? I think it's chinese though. wtf do I do?
I DONT THINK MY REDMI NOTE 3 WILL BE AFFECTED
HUEHUEHUEHUE I
>tfw too scared to buy a smartphone now
Wtf I hate smartphones now.
Thanks Mr Skeltal
>The company, Shanghai AdUps Technologies, had apparently designed the backdoor to help Chinese phone manufacturers and carriers track the behavior of their customers for advertising purposes.
so, basically google?
Wow. What a surprise.
Chinese botnet
>Americans can't find me because chinese protect me
>lmao
>the Moto Z Play is overpriced for a phone with massive battery life they said
>buy a chink shit phone for cheap if you want a big battery they said
Enjoy your fucking Chinese botnet, morons!
Could Sup Forums chinkshit phone peddlers have
Have been any more anally devastated?
Get the S7 edge. Here is an honest recommendation. That shit is not outdated and will last at least 3 years/generations. By the time S10 comes around, basically.
>i'm afraid of the NSA
>i know, i'll buy a piece of shit chinkphone subsidized by the chinese gubmint
Sup Forums is retarded
>blu
Americans aren't gonna like that lmao
I raffed
>oneplus
Not that we know of. Yet.
to add to this on the oneplus subreddit Carl Pei has said that oneplus doesn't have the backdoor
he could be liny of course, but if he's caught out barefaced bullshitting it would make terrible PR for OP
My doogee phone came with this installed from a vendor ROM. Reflashing stock ROM it was gone. Malwarebytes picked it up.
Never seen it on 3 xiaomi phones I've bought or other doogee.
Now Lenovo knows what iv'e been up to
S.h.i.t.
You're getting a botnet regardless of what phone you buy, dumbass. What are the chinks going to do with your information? Nothing as bad as your own government could.
see Buy a different phone or make your own AOSP build. After you flash unofficial firmware, you only really have the proprietary bootloader to worry about which is not much different than IntelME which will only ass fuck you when the NSA has physical access. Custom ROMs are the smartphone equivalent of installing GNU/Linux on a PC.
>ATTENTION: anyone that uses a Chinese smartphone
Excuse me, but that would be ALL OF THEM you fucking moron.
>Now Lenovo knows what iv'e been up to
More likely the Chinese Government knows what you're up to. The malware is installed at the plant so it's more likely a government thing, since it covers so many brands/models.
Lenovo's malware is a whole 'nother.
>sends back data including phone number, location, all text messages and calls, apps, contents of phone, etc.
you mean like every other smartphone out there?
Yeah, its called Android
...
All smartphones are chinese, retard.
I have an HTC10, should I be scared?
Taiwan is okay.
>smartphones
not so smart now huh fags
Has any single group of fa/g/s EVER been so comprehensively BTFO'd before?
At least thanks to the Chinese botnet they will LITERALLY be on suicide watch!
This.
And almost all stock Android had Google apps preinstalled anyway.
>Internet
>Privacy
Pick one.
No matter what you do on anything with connectivity, something or someone will always be monitoring it. Its a fact of life. (You can take off your tinfoil hat now)
You've spent years using a dumbphone just for this one moment of superiority, haven't you?
why wasnt this first post best post?
this thread is hilarious so far. Sup Forums posting at its finest
You can trust any Chinese products. But now am I going to have to shell out $700 for a Pixel?
>tfw you're Taiwanese
My condolences.