remember the Samsung Galaxy backdoor?

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muhammed
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Iscritto: 04/13/2013

A security researcher said that there is "virtually no evidence" of any backdoor. I don't understand these technical matters. Could someone who understands explain?

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/virtually-no-evidence-for-claim-of-remote-backdoor-in-samsung-galaxy-phones/

Original complaint:

http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/SamsungGalaxyBackdoor

G4JC
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Iscritto: 03/11/2012

The researcher is saying it is a bug not a backdoor, that allowed for directory traversal and possible an exploit.

More on this:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Path_Traversal

Keep in mind Heartbleed was also a "bug" but convenient enough that it may have been used as a backdoor.

We may never know if the bug was intentional or a typo, a problem in even open source software - since people fail to properly audit the code.

Jodiendo
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Iscritto: 01/09/2013

Mohammed and G4JC

I'm going to keep my reply to your forum concrete. Even your discussion is very informative, unfortunate this forum is a classic example of topic not related to trisquel and should be post it in the troll hole. Unless, you feel that my comment is obviously {out of range), then excuse me and my parle!

tomlukeywood
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Iscritto: 12/05/2014

please explain the negative effect of this post

Jodiendo
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Iscritto: 01/09/2013

I'm just voicing my opinion, Since you are asking, why don't you tell me first...

tomlukeywood
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Iscritto: 12/05/2014

i think that while there is no genrel discussion forum
this is the only place were posts get noticed
so if there’s something important like a Samsung backdoor
its fine to post it here