Article ZW13 Oops. Silent Circle let apps meddle with Blackphone's modem

Oops. Silent Circle let apps meddle with Blackphone's modem

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Story ImageSoftware interface left open, so make sure you're patched

It's emerged that a software update for Silent Circle's Blackphone that shipped in December included a fix for a pretty egregious bug: the developers had left a modem interface open and accessible to code on the Android-based smartphone."

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