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2021-09-22 Cyber
Lithuania tells its citizens to throw away their Chinese mobile phones after report found devices had built-in censorship capabilities
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Cybersecurity body report found Xiaomi devices could detect and censor terms

  • 'Free Tibet', 'Long live Taiwan independence' or 'democracy movement' among terms included in the feature, which was turned off for EU region

  • However, it could be turned on remotely at any time, Tuesday's report found

  • The National Cyber Centre report also said the phone was sending encrypted phone usage data to a server in Singapore

  • A security flaw was also found in the P40 5G phone produced by Huawei

  • Xiaomi has not responded to the report which comes amid tensions with China

  • Huawei said its phones do not send users' data externally
Posted by Skidmark 2021-09-22 09:01|| || Front Page|| [11148 views ]  Top
 File under: Commies 

#1 "Huawei said its phones do not send users' data externally"
Ho ho. Ha ha.
There was no reason to put that function in if it doesn't do that.
Unless they just add that function to everything as a matter of policy...
Posted by ed in texas 2021-09-22 11:11||   2021-09-22 11:11|| Front Page Top

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