@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agoThousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalledarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square189fedilinkarrow-up1606arrow-down121cross-posted to: technology[email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1585arrow-down1external-linkThousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalledarstechnica.com@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square189fedilinkcross-posted to: technology[email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-21 year agoinstalling your own OS and/or bootloader is a pain and most of the time unfeasable. And that’s the only way to safely kill software based backdoors.
minus-squareDoubletwistlinkEnglish1•1 year agoEven then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can’t be sure it’s clean.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoon Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I’d not call it “software based” anymore.
Definitely not unkillable tho
installing your own OS and/or bootloader is a pain and most of the time unfeasable. And that’s the only way to safely kill software based backdoors.
Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can’t be sure it’s clean.
on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I’d not call it “software based” anymore.