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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by Florin_Andrei on Monday July 27, 2015 @03:21PM (#9957382)
But wouldn't there be a trail of notifications, or something?
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by 13 on Monday July 27, 2015 @03:25PM (#9957410)
If malware has root access it can alter everything on the phone without you ever seeing it. Any information falsified, all detection tools subverted.
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by fragsworth on Monday July 27, 2015 @03:33PM (#9957465)
Possibly, if Google is logging everything on their servers. It should be relatively easy for them to find out who got infected.
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