It's not mentioned in the article but the whole reason this was picked up by the researcher is on that particular Sprint/HTC ROM, they left the debugging messag

It's not mentioned in the article but the whole reason this was picked up by the researcher is on that particular Sprint/HTC ROM, they left the debugging messages in the rootkit enabled by accident. I do wish he had at least shown the TCP/IP packets with the full sms content and the https google search query in plain text.