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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say it would be more clickbaity if you just removed the "TV", because it'd make you think of smartphones, and those would be much more concerning

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I'm not sure what the correct headline is, but at least for me I definitely clicked because I thought it was to do with Android TV, which it wasn't. It was about those cheap boxes that anyone reading Ars already knows are probably filled with malware