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jcul
6 days ago
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Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbud...
To be fair (or pedantic), in this post they didn't have root, so cat'ing etc/passwd would not have been possible, whereas installing a doom apk is trivial.
rainonmoon
6 days ago
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/etc/passwd is world readable by default.
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kaszanka
6 days ago
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To be even more pedantic, it's also not present on Android.
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jcul
3 days ago
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Good points, I've been out pedantic-ed!
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reverendsteveii
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not if you fork an open source os and add /etc/passwd you haven't been
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