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Re:Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy backdoor by mindslight on Thursday May 08, 2014 @01:05PM (#7716332)
"Bug" implies a mistake/oversight where the additional functionality was known to noone, and then discovered. This functionality was deliberately created, thus it's a "backdoor".

Based on what seemingly passes for "accepted practice" in the mobile world (download QPST for tons of fun!), the only sane way to have a trustable mobile device is with a separate cell-modem and a well-defined interface.

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Re:Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy backdoor by eli on Thursday May 08, 2014 @01:53PM (#7716609)
I mean, maybe I'm confused, but this sounds like they closed one method (among others) that could potentially be used to create a backdoor by, I guess, a carrier or OEM.

There's no evidence that anyone's phone was open to remote exploit at any time.

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Re:Replicant developers find and close Samsung Galaxy backdoor by mindslight on Saturday May 10, 2014 @01:31PM (#7726172)
It seems as if you're using a weird definition - "backdoor" just implies that the functionality exists, not that it has necessarily been utilized.
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