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Vent@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

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Vent@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
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Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.
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    Its actaully widescreen and the picture quality is surprisingly decent.

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      Except that old CRT cannot display modern digital images.

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        Yeah, I was making a joke. Do love that bastard though, also its fun to daisy chain adapters and run firesticks and shit on it. Good for old movies and games that were intended for CRT.

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          I tried to make that shit work with Raspberry pi. All attempts were futile.

          Here it is: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/2626604

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