Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Worth pointing out this isn’t any proper Android TV devices, but rather those cheap boxes that are often basically SBCs with AOSP installed on them which are predominantly sold as easy piracy boxes.
Vent@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Leaving out the TV makes it less precise and more clickbaity because then it sounds like Android phones are affected.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I guess the problem is that “Android TV” is a specific thing that none of these devices actually are, they’re just dodgy boxes running Android that can be plugged into a TV.
For me it’s more clickbaity because Android TV isn’t actually involved here at all.
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I’d say it would be more clickbaity if you just removed the “TV”, because it’d make you think of smartphones, and those would be much more concerning
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah I’m not sure what the correct headline is, but at least for me I definitely clicked because I thought it was to do with Android TV, which it wasn’t.
planish@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Aren’t the boxes running “Android TV”, the set top box oriented flavor of Android, with e.g. the launcher designed to be operated with a TV remote and not a touch screen?
They are not themselves TVs, though, and I guess nowdays it might be most common for “Android TV” to run on the TV instead of on a separate device.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s the problem, they’re not running Android TV at all. Just regular phone Android with some third party launcher.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why not just find a different website reporting the story with a better headline? Rather than sharing the one with the headline you fear is misleading?
Vent@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s only slightly misleading and Arstechnica writes really good articles. It’s pretty much the only news site I regularly browse.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
Is there a better article to find?