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Samsung phones are spontaneously texting users’ photos to random contacts
- abhiminator 8y agoThis sound eerily similar to a recent instance when Amazon's Alexa recorded and transmitted a private conversation of a Portland family to a random contact, just a couple months ago. [0] This is some bad publicity for the tech industry at large. Hope the team at Samsung figures this out soon. [0] https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-device-recorded-private-conversation-sent-it-out-to-random-contact/755507974 https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-devic...
- notadev 8y agoFor any Samsung users who want to try and avoid this until a fix is pushed: 1. Open settings widget. 2. Click on Apps. 3. Click on the Messages app. 4. Select Permissions. 5. Toggle 'Storage' off.
- nwah1 8y agoThis causes the app to not open.
- acchow 8y agoI really hope this bug has a post mortem.
- hbcondo714 8y agoPrevious discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17445529 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17445529 (80 comments)
- RandyRanderson 8y agoShouldn't the news here be that ppl use Samsung's msging apps?