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Interesting article but one thing stood out: The landlord had no idea what this is. There are no buttons or labels on the thing, just a tiny yellow light to le
by userbinator 3y ago
Interesting article but one thing stood out:
The landlord had no idea what this is. There are no buttons or labels on the thing, just a tiny yellow light to let you know it has the power.
You move in and find a mysterious device on the wall that, at least to me, appears somewhat ominous and it's not obvious whether it may have a camera and possibly a microphone (the picture of it on the manual appears to show that it does have at least a camera)...
Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment.
...and you were perfectly fine with living in its presence for a year? When I saw the picture, my first thought was closer to "that's a telescreen", and I'd certainly try to find out more about it ASAP.
From what I can tell, this is an Android 5, but I am not exactly sure.
I believe those icons are from 4.1-4.3 - Lines up with the Linux kernel version being mid-2013. Android 5 was released in 2014.
- UberFly 3y agoThat was my first though as I read it. It would be disabled or removed the first day.
- NautilusWave 3y agoHe hadn't read 1984
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- anigbrowl 3y agoThe landlord had no idea what this is. Golgafrincham B Ark candidate detected.
- madaxe_again 3y agoHey, he might be an exceedingly skilled telephone sanitiser.
- CPLX 3y agoWhich, if you recall, turned out to be a bit of a linchpin role.
- tim333 3y agoAs a landlord this is quite common. You buy through an estate, let through a letting agent and have very little idea what gizmos are installed. Until maybe something packs up and you have to pay for a new one.
- wkjagt 3y agoThe person showing them around might not even have been the landlord.
- lynguist 3y agoIt should be Android 4.4 as per https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/51651/which-android-runs-which-linux-kernel https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/51651/which-andr... Kernel 3.10 is used only for Android 4.4.