@Vent@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoThousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalledarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square190fedilinkarrow-up1602arrow-down120cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldandroid@lemdro.id
arrow-up1582arrow-down1external-linkThousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalledarstechnica.com@Vent@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square190fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldandroid@lemdro.id
minus-square@heeplr@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-29 months 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-squareDoubletwistlinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoEven then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can’t be sure it’s clean.
minus-square@heeplr@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months 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.