Mar 13
It seems that according to a security report from the Replicant developers, it looks as though there might be certain Samsung Galaxy models featuring a particular chipset that might actually have a backdoor in them that would allow third parties to access your phone without your permission and knowledge.
As it stands, the developers found that the phones affect include: Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy S3, Galaxy S2, Galaxy S, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, and Galaxy 2 7.0. Based on their findings, the modem’s baseband software “implements a backdoor that lets the modem perform remote file I/O operations on the file system.” (more…)
Some Galaxy Devices Found To Have A Security Flaw original content from Ubergizmo. 
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