[PLUG-TALK] Serious Android Vulnerability

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 05:21:27 UTC 2015


Text messaging is part of the phone side not the data side.  No way to turn
it off except by contacting the carrier.
On Jul 27, 2015 10:10 PM, "Keith Lofstrom" <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 06:19:47AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >   There's a newly discovered Android vulerability that can be exploited
> by
> > receiving a text message, even if you don't use a specific video
> > application. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
> >
> > <
> http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/07/27/426613020/major-flaw-in-android-phones-would-let-hackers-in-with-just-a-text
> >
>
> Besides turning off the phone, how do you tell an Android
> "do not answer text messages?"  I don't have a "smart"
> phone (I'm not that stupid) but some of my friends are,
> and I'll probably end up doing their sysadmin for them.
>
> Although updates are supposed to appear by magic, somehow,
> I will suggest keeping text messaging disabled until the
> bugfix for the bugfix appears, and the people responsible
> for firing the people responsible have been fired.
>
> Keith
>
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> Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com
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