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And the Apache license means that we definitely won't get to look at the source code and any Chinese built in backdoors / trojans / other expected "goodness". O
by imrehg 15y ago
And the Apache license means that we definitely won't get to look at the source code and any Chinese built in backdoors / trojans / other expected "goodness". Or should I give them the benefit of the doubt? I think that boat has sailed.
- grandalf 15y agoDo you really think there aren't backdoors in US made phones?
- awakeasleep 15y agoDo you know how to find out more about this? I remember reading about how some Mafioso case in the early 00's included evidence recorded over a Nokia when it was supposedly off. It seems like modern devices would have similar capabilities, but I don't know of any place to learn about it. Shouldn't an employee of Apple or Google or Motorola have leaked the deets somewhere? Shouldn't there be a site catering to the hacker demographic listing, at the very least, court cases that use interesting information?
- grandalf 15y agoWell one "back door" is that companies (Google, AT&T, etc.) log large amounts of info about your phone's usage, including GPS coordinates, etc., which are only a warrant (often an automated one) away from being obtained by authorities.
- imrehg 15y agoI think I can trust more the CyanogenMod that I'm running on my HTC phone than anything coming from a Chinese closed-source firm.
- vetinari 15y agoI don't want to spoil your day, but do you realize that you have no idea, what runs on the broadband core of your HTC (Samsung, Motorola, whatever) phone? That's the core that boots first and then loads SPL on your application processor.
- bluedanieru 15y agoTo be fair, I don't think it would have mattered if it were GPL. The Chinese don't give a shit.
- illumen 15y agoPlease consider changing your racist attitude. Of course some Chinese people give a shit.
- bluedanieru 15y agoIt isn't racist. China has poor copyright protection. Chinese don't give a shit because they don't have to.