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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by simoncion on Monday July 27, 2015 @09:39PM (#9959060)
TextSecure does not decode MMS attachments until you explicitly open them. [0] Switching to it as your default SMS handler should protect you from drive-by infection through malicious MMS payloads.

[0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817

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