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user-inactivated  ·  3167 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Exploit affecting Android 2.2-5.1.1 allows malicious MMS text to crack your phone.

    There's speculation that disabling auto-retrieval of MMS from your various applications (Messaging, Viber, etc.) could prevent this exploit from occurring, but again, nothing solid has surfaced.

Yeah. I heard about this on the radio this morning on my drive to work. They said as soon as you open the message though, without even playing the video, the exploit can go off.

What a security hole. It's a scary thing to think about.





savingpilotryan  ·  3167 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On some phones, simply receiving the message lets it do its harm. I personally have auto-retrieval off for now.