Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
heeplr@feddit.de 8 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 malware.
doubletwist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can’t be sure it’s clean.
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.