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Four in five Android devices inherit Linux snooping flaw

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Oh well.

Happily for me, I don't have any secrets of any interest to, variously, the CIA, the Chinese, Mossad, etc, nor do I have any banking stuff on my phone. Or any disgruntled ex partners working for any agency. Still, the shadow of 20th century history - totalitarian states, manipulation of democracy in states professing to be free - hangs over us.

I was chatting with a fella in the pub last night who does clever electronic R&D stuff for the MoD - he says their Blackberrys have been replaced by locked-down iPhone 6s running Blackberry software, though he doesn't see the point of the 'upgrade' since the corporate apps don't really make use of the iPhone's bigger screen and better camera etc. (For obvious reasons, conversation wasn't about what he does unless already in the public domain, but good chatting about general corporate/academic culture and engineering)

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