☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to Technology@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 3 months agoSecurity firm iVerify found stock Google Pixel devices' app "showcase" With Excessive System Privileges, Including Remote Code Executioniverify.ioexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@hexbear.net
arrow-up113arrow-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 · 3 months agomessage-square6fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@hexbear.net
minus-squareComprehensive49@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoShiiiit. My mobile is in the vulnerable demographic. Time to see if Google will patch this out.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months agoit looks like it’s not as bad as originally seems https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112967309987371034
minus-squareComprehensive49@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoOh, just an annoying marketing stunt. Capitalism distracts me once again.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months 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.
minus-squareBart@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months 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-up2·3 months 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 😭.
Shiiiit. My mobile is in the vulnerable demographic. Time to see if Google will patch this out.
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.
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 😭.