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EXPOSED: Samsung phones in West Asia/North Africa (WANA) region embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware (www.thecanary.co)

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An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat

Original article from May: https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If I rooted my phone can I somehow remove them(maybe with adaway and canta)??
But tbh I will never buy a Samsung again.

Edit: I don't think you need root to remove it.

[–] WreckingBANG@programming.dev 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am not a professional, but i would say you can probably remove the App, BUT with just removing the App it might still be somewhere on the phone on a deeper level that you cannot really see right away and is hard to trace.

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The article is also ridiculous... even the hidden Facebook installer (and alternatives) etc. could do all that. So the components that can only be removed with root access... This is about Israel, which specializes in this... as if they were developing spyware that is listed as an app...

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Always root if in doubt. Even that is not enough sometimes, but it usually is.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

I unlocked my bootloader and rooted anyways after that no longer can unlock bootloader thingy.