Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalledVent@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.world – 578 points – 12 months agoarstechnica.com180Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsDefinitely not unkillable thoinstalling 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.Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can't be sure it's clean.on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I'd not call it "software based" anymore.
Definitely not unkillable thoinstalling 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.Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can't be sure it's clean.on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I'd not call it "software based" anymore.
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.Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can't be sure it's clean.on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I'd not call it "software based" anymore.
Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can't be sure it's clean.on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I'd not call it "software based" anymore.
on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I'd not call it "software based" anymore.
Definitely not unkillable tho
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.
Even then, unless you also blow away the firmware, you can't be sure it's clean.
on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I'd not call it "software based" anymore.