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EXPOSED: Samsung phones in West Asia/North Africa (WANA) region embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware (www.thecanary.co)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat

Original article from May: https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

If I rooted my phone can I somehow remove them(maybe with adaway and canta)??
But tbh I will never buy a Samsung again.

Edit: I don't think you need root to remove it.

[–] WreckingBANG@programming.dev 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I am not a professional, but i would say you can probably remove the App, BUT with just removing the App it might still be somewhere on the phone on a deeper level that you cannot really see right away and is hard to trace.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Always root if in doubt. Even that is not enough sometimes, but it usually is.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 9 months ago

I unlocked my bootloader and rooted anyways after that no longer can unlock bootloader thingy.