I’m surprised by the number of Chinese phones on the supported list. Does this m...

wnscooke on Nov 25, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now support...

I’m surprised by the number of Chinese phones on the supported list. Does this mean a simple OS reinstall overwrites any backdoors these phones may have, which suggests any backdoor is software related? What about hardware? Dos the new OS inhibit hardware backdoor communications?

timbit42 on Nov 25, 2018 [–]

In theory but are other things in the phone backdoored? What if the WiFi device is backdoored?