Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• heeplr@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 malware.

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  • doubletwist@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can’t be sure it’s clean.

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    • heeplr@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I’d not call it “software based” anymore.

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