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Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge insecure

  • 02-07-2016 05:11PM
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    Impetus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭


    An article in Ars reveals a security weakness in certain Qualcomm mobile phone processors which could lead to security risks for data stored on the devices. I naively assumed that Samsung would be using its own processors - it is a Korean company that has a wide range of activities from electronics to skyscraper building to chain store design to financial products.

    A quick Google reveals that Samsung is using American processors made by Qualcomm.

    Perhaps it is time that electronics products had a declaration of source of key components - like a CE declaration? It would make it easier for the customer to keep track of potential weaknesses in the products they are about to buy.

    http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/07/androids-full-disk-encryption-just-got-much-weaker-heres-why/


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