• A_A@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Amongst other things, Israel, if you recall, made some cell phones to explode, so too kill people they don’t like. Or maybe there was something called “Pegasus” that went something like that also ? I would have to do some search to be sure.

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        1 day ago

        I guess many foreign powers are interested in mass surveillance of unstable regions and low budget phones are a good way to do it. People there need phones and don’t have many options, or don’t care because there are worse problems.

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            12 hours ago

            Samsung has been accused of shipping budget Galaxy A and M series smartphones with pre-installed spyware that users can’t easily remove.

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              11 hours ago

              Read the rest of the article.

              They’re talking about “affordable Samsung models”.

              “Budget” for a Samsung, not “budget” for a smartphone on that region and definitelly not “low budged”.

              Want to check what “low budged” means for a smartphone in unstable (read: poor) regions, go to to AliExpress and search for “cheap smartphone”.