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发帖数: 21396 | 3 前阵子BLU在美国惹上Law Suit了，说里面有木马软件偷偷把隐私数据传回上海一个公
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发帖数: 21396 | 5 http://fortune.com/2016/11/22/blu-products-backdoor/
Phone Maker Faces Lawsuit Over ‘Backdoor’ to China
Jeff John Roberts
Nov 22, 2016
A U.S. company is facing a class action lawsuit following reports it sold
thousands of Android phones containing software that sent consumers' private
messages to companies in China.
Miami-based Blu Products, which sells low cost phones through Amazon (AMZN,
+1.71%) and BestBuy (BBY, +1.13%), came to attention last week when the New
York Times identified it as among the phone makers whose products contained
a so-called "backdoor."
In this case, the backdoor served to send copies of users' text messages and
phone call data every 72 hours to a Chinese software firm called Shanghai
AdUps Technologies. It also relayed other data, such as information about
location and app usage, every 24 hours. The Shanghai firm reportedly
collects such data for advertising purposes.
Following the report of the secret backdoor, Blu Products told the Times
that 120,000 of its devices had been affected and that it had pushed out a
software update to stop them sending information to China. It also said it
had not known about the backdoor.
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But the incident also led Rosen Legal, a firm specializing in class action
lawsuits, to post a "security alert" warning consumers about the backdoor,
and inviting those who had bought certain Blu Products devices to be part of
an investigation and participate in the lawsuit. The notice also explained
how consumers could determine if their devices had been affected by what the
firm calls "spyware":
You can check to see if your Blu Products phone was affected by going to the
Settings Menu in Android, selecting “Apps,” followed by “Show System”
and then “Wireless Update.” If your version of Wireless Update is from 5.0
.x to 5.3.x, or above, you phone was affected and you may be a member of the
class action.
Blu Products, for its part, dismissed the law firm's allegations.
"This is a non issue and there is no wrong doing from BLU to warrant any
such claim. There were no damages that anyone suffered, and this is a
typical knee jerk ambulance chaser who dismisses details and is uneducated
on the subject," said Carmen Gonzalez, senior marketing director for Blu
Products, said in an email to Fortune.The controversy comes at a time of
growing concern over how phones, and many other Internet-connected devices,
are susceptible to hacking or intrusive software that records or transmits
private information. This week, a security firm reported the existence of
another powerful backdoor in over 3 million Android devices that permits
third parties to monitor the device owners' communications. |
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