http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...-send-owners-text-messages-and-location-data/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/android_phoning_home_to_china/
John.
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Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING
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Yet another reason to use custom ROM's on these handsets. Switching my Chinese Android to Cyanogenmod 12 & 13 has allowed me to keep it for waaaaaay longer than originally intended.
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Starlight5 Yes, I'm a cat. What else is there to say, really?
Yet another reason to buy flagship phones; used flagship is better than new low-end, and often mid-range too.
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you have to be mad to pay 500$+ for the phone when similar specced from china, with all the custom roms and stuff will cost you like 200.
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Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING
In the West you have to pay to get your phone hacked(Root), In the East you have to pay to get your phone unhacked(Spyware).
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ZTE and Huawei have been at the forefront of these activities...
Another Chinese company ZTE, found to put hidden Backdoors in their products for spying:
US Fines Chinese Tech Giant ZTE $1.2 Billion
Published on Mar 17, 2017
As the US attempts to sanction North Korea and Iran, those regimes get a helping hand from Chinese tech giants...
Special Report: Chinese firm helps Iran spy on citizens
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-telecoms-idUSBRE82L0B820120322
"A Chinese telecommunications equipment company has sold Iran's largest telecom firm a powerful surveillance system capable of monitoring landline, mobile and internet communications, interviews and contract documents show..."
"...The ZTE-TCI documents also disclose a backdoor way Iran apparently obtains U.S. technology despite a longtime American ban on non-humanitarian sales to Iran - by purchasing them through a Chinese company."
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This is the name Notebook Consultant
In the West the Data get send to the NSA just for safety reasons.
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Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING
I use this firewall app, it creates a VPN and channels all data from apps and browsers through it, and it can block data getting to certain country, like Russia, China, ect.
I use Kaspersky AntiVirus so i have to unblock kaspersky so it can do updates, but all other apps trying to talk to Russia are still blocked.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lostnet.fw.free&hl=en
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Support.2@XOTIC PC Company Representative
Cheap Android phones send owners' text messages and location data to China
Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets' started by Tinderbox (UK), Nov 16, 2016.