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commotionfever
515 days ago
Looks like that app may have a backdoor
https://x.com/d0tslash/status/1878959715033694492
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alp1n3_eth
515 days ago
The backdoor named "backdoor", the l33t h4ck3rs strike again.
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marcosdumay
515 days ago
If it's for spying on Chinese people inside Chinese territory, there wouldn't be any need to hide it.
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glurblur
515 days ago
Nah, I don't buy it. Chinese as plenty of programmers who can read code as well as you. This dude is literally dumping symbols. There's no proof that it's actually a backdoor.
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marcosdumay
514 days ago
And those Chinese programmers can't talk to anybody about what they find.
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alp1n3_eth
512 days ago
It has been under heavy scrutiny by the security community for years, it would have already been found had it existed.
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saagarjha
515 days ago
Running strings for “backdoor” isn’t quite top-notch technical analysis.
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pjc50
515 days ago
Quite plausible. To what extent can a backdoor escape Android/iOS sandboxing?
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jeromegv
515 days ago
> To what extent can a backdoor escape Android/iOS sandboxing?
Chances of that happening are close to 0.
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