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Security firm iVerify found stock Google Pixel devices' app "showcase" With Excessive System Privileges, Including Remote Code Execution(iverify.io)

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Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml
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Shiiiit. My mobile is in the vulnerable demographic. Time to see if Google will patch this out.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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it looks like it’s not as bad as originally seems https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112967309987371034

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Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml
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Oh, just an annoying marketing stunt. Capitalism distracts me once again.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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It’s still a question of why an app with elevated permissions was packaged in the firmware, but yeah it doesn’t look like the exploit itself is easy to do.

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Bart@lemmygrad.ml
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If you use a pixel I would highly recommended Calyxos. You got a lot more privacy and so much less bloatware (and much less batteryusagess).

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Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml
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I’m swapping to a brand new Samsung in a couple months. I need the S Pen for school. I don’t think an alternate privatevOS exists for it 😭.

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