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Yikes! Are these the same phones that were available for free to poor people under Obama? (Hence called "Obamaphones.) I remember the brand as something like “Alcatel…”
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Yes
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Shocked, not shocked, etc.
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Cheapest to produce, but the producers (not the line workers) get their pay one way or another.
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Sure the malware is horrible, but does the article really need the racist graphic?
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It’s Android’s fault. Outside of their core OS, no software should be unremovable.
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Not seeing this is malware. It could be used to push malware, sure, but it’s reported as being an auto-updater for the OS and firmware. Which isn’t keylogger or camera hijack levels of evil. So what am I missing, what else does it do?
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