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Re:Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA by Dah00n on Saturday June 21, 2025 @06:41AM (#44336390)
It's also a mistake to assume that a very capable country can't get into a network that uses US equipment/software... especially Cisco equipment with all the "forgotten" hardcoded logins. Iran is better off with Chinese equipment than American or Korean.
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Re:Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA by kragen on Saturday June 21, 2025 @07:11AM (#44336552)
Nobody knows enough to say whether Iran is better off with Chinese equipment, because most of the intentional backdoors on every side of this struggle remain undiscovered by the other sides.
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Re:Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA by dse1982 on Saturday June 21, 2025 @07:24AM (#44336643)
Well, China is more on the side of Iran than the US or US allies. So there is that.
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Re:Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA by kragen on Saturday June 21, 2025 @07:27AM (#44336654)
Yes, but that doesn't imply they want Iran's telecommunications network to be a black box to the PLA.
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Re:Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA by mensetmanusman on Saturday June 21, 2025 @07:40AM (#44336731)
Not if you know math…
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Re:Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA by throw123xz on Monday June 23, 2025 @08:48PM (#44361773)
Who made that assumption? The comment I replied to said that the network deployed by S. Korean firms was compromised and implied that the one from China was safe. I'm just pointing out that using Huawei or ZTE won't stop a country like Israel.
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