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		Florin_Andrei on July 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in ... But wouldn't there be a trail of notifications, or something?

13 on July 27, 2015 | [–]

If malware has root access it can alter everything on the phone without you ever seeing it. Any information falsified, all detection tools subverted.

fragsworth on July 27, 2015 | [–]

Possibly, if Google is logging everything on their servers. It should be relatively easy for them to find out who got infected.

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