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Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.

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Badly [re-]titled ArsTechnica article warns of large multi-vector malware incursions in IoT and personal devices suspected to be Chinese in origin

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Thousands of Android (streaming) devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

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Thousands of Android (streaming) devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled

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My OctoPrint server runs on one of these (previous homeowners left it lying around), but I completely nuked Android and installed the Armbian distro for the Inovato Quadra (itself just a carefully sourced and rebranded TV box). It was tedious though, and I'd never buy one for that purpose when there are dedicated SBCs.
- 4k though
  
  Ok but for the rest of us it means that it's categorically NOT better than any Smart TV...