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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)
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[–] xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely not unkillable tho

[–] heeplr@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 software based backdoors.

[–] doubletwist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] heeplr@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

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