> I have found out recently that the remote assistant software that we put in smartphone we sell can be activated by us without user approval.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it says nothing about what might possibly happen in case their remote assistant is remotely activated. Also it's unclear how large is their user base. Everyone kind of assumes serious implications, though.
IMO if this whole thing is true, it indicates that the company probably doesn't have good QA and development process in place. Otherwise either such a bug would not exist (most likely it was left for debugging purposes), or it would really be a product of an evil intent (and hidden from uninitiated developers).
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> I have found out recently that the remote assistant software that we put in smartphone we sell can be activated by us without user approval.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it says nothing about what might possibly happen in case their remote assistant is remotely activated. Also it's unclear how large is their user base. Everyone kind of assumes serious implications, though.
IMO if this whole thing is true, it indicates that the company probably doesn't have good QA and development process in place. Otherwise either such a bug would not exist (most likely it was left for debugging purposes), or it would really be a product of an evil intent (and hidden from uninitiated developers).