☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to Technology@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 29 days agoSecurity firm iVerify found stock Google Pixel devices' app "showcase" With Excessive System Privileges, Including Remote Code Executioniverify.ioexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkSecurity firm iVerify found stock Google Pixel devices' app "showcase" With Excessive System Privileges, Including Remote Code Executioniverify.io☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to Technology@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareComprehensive49@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·29 days agoShiiiit. My mobile is in the vulnerable demographic. Time to see if Google will patch this out.
minus-squareBart@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·29 days agoIf you use a pixel I would highly recommended Calyxos. You got a lot more privacy and so much less bloatware (and much less batteryusagess).
minus-squareComprehensive49@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·29 days agoI’m swapping to a brand new Samsung in a couple months. I need the S Pen for school. I don’t think an alternate privatevOS exists for it 😭.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·29 days agoit looks like it’s not as bad as originally seems https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112967309987371034
minus-squareComprehensive49@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·29 days agoOh, just an annoying marketing stunt. Capitalism distracts me once again.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·29 days agoIt’s still a question of why an app with elevated permissions was packaged in the firmware, but yeah it doesn’t look like the exploit itself is easy to do.
Shiiiit. My mobile is in the vulnerable demographic. Time to see if Google will patch this out.
If you use a pixel I would highly recommended Calyxos. You got a lot more privacy and so much less bloatware (and much less batteryusagess).
I’m swapping to a brand new Samsung in a couple months. I need the S Pen for school. I don’t think an alternate privatevOS exists for it 😭.
it looks like it’s not as bad as originally seems https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112967309987371034
Oh, just an annoying marketing stunt. Capitalism distracts me once again.
It’s still a question of why an app with elevated permissions was packaged in the firmware, but yeah it doesn’t look like the exploit itself is easy to do.