Security News > 2016 > November > Smartphone Secretly Sends Private Data to China (Schneier on Security)
2016-11-18 20:22
This is pretty amazing: International customers and users of disposable or prepaid phones are the people most affected by the software. But the scope is unclear. The Chinese company that wrote the software, Shanghai Adups Technology Company, says its code runs on more than 700 million phones, cars and other smart devices. One American phone manufacturer, BLU Products, said that...
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