Phone security problems

[Chuckanut]

Here's something you should know if you have purchased an inexpensive cell phone from Blu. It seems your data may have been sent to Shanghai.

Blu Phones Secretly Sending Data to China - Consumer Reports

The phone made an encrypted record of several kinds of phone data, and every 72 hours it uploaded the data to a server in China registered to Adups. The data included text messages, phone call histories, and details of how the phone was being used. For instance, Benameur said, "They can tell you launched Facebook for 10 minutes and then switched to Google Maps, and so on."

Apparently, these inexpensive phones were sold by many companies including Amazon.

 

[audreyh1]

Yeah, DH caught that a few days ago.

At least I bought a (mostly) dumb phone and didn't use wifi or internet, and I didn't put personal stuff in it. I don't need it anymore.

 

[harley]

It doesn't matter. The NSA gets all your data anyway, so when China (and everyone else) hacks their servers they end up with your stuff. There is no privacy.