He blamed sloppy coding rather than any deliberate attempt to leave backdoors open for spying purposes.
Most of these Android backdoors contain exploits designed to gain super-user privileges or obtain maximum privileges on the system.
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And if there are backdoors and so on then of course the kit should be banned from being installed right away.
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Certainly, it is possible that there are backdoors in the equipment and that these pose very serious intelligence and security questions.
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In the 1990s, the Clinton administration pushed for the adoption of hardware backdoors to allow government to read otherwise secure e-mail as it saw fit.
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Last August, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission unanimously voted to require companies that offer VoIP service to provide police with technological backdoors for wiretapping access.
Hardware backdoors can exist without being programmed into the source code.
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He points out that the FBI continued over the last year to claim that encryption hampered law enforcement, pushing for backdoors into all Internet communications.
Malware accounts for 94 percent of the records stolen, with backdoors with packet sniffers designed to send the data remotely attributable to roughly 80 percent of compromises.
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July 2006: US media reports that intruders penetrate the US Department of State (DoS) networks, stealing sensitive information and user login credentials, and install backdoors on numerous computers, allowing them to return to the systems at will.
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The New York Times last week reported that the FBI, Justice Department, NSA, and the White House have met to discuss creating more stringent regulations around digital communications, expanding CALEA or passing a new law that requires backdoors in previously unregulated technologies.
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