Rashek writes:
"The developers of Replicant, a pure Free-Software version of Android, claim to have discovered a security flaw in certain Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets . One so serious that it could potentially grant an attacker remote access to the device's file system.
The flaw lies in the software that enables communication between the Android OS and the device's radio modem, according to the Replicant project's Paul Kocialkowski. More information can be found at replicant's website."
(Score: 5, Funny) by hybristic on Thursday March 13 2014, @12:25PM
The only time I ever use the word 'back door' is when my girl friend has had a few too many drinks! ;P
But in reality a backdoor is simply any time you bypass normal authentication methods without being detected. Which is why I can only exploit the gf's backdoor when shes drunk, she doesn't log this attempt so it goes unnoticed. So to call this a backdoor is pretty accurate.