A nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing human rights in digital spaces across West Asia and North Africa — is warning that Israeli-linked software secretly embedded in Samsung phones across the MENA region poses a serious surveillance threat.
According to SMEX, Samsung’s A and M series devices either come preloaded with the app “Aura” or install it automatically through system updates, without the user’s consent. The application reportedly collects a wide range of personal and device-specific data, including IP addresses, device fingerprints, hardware details, and network information.
In 2022, Samsung MENA partnered with Israeli tech company IronSource, integrating its Aura software into Galaxy A and M series phones across the region. The partnership was publicly marketed as a way to “enhance user experience” with AI-powered apps and content suggestions.
Israel… aren’t those the guys that put bombs in the pagers?
So Samsung was Zionist the entire time. I’m glad I stopped using their newer stuff (I have an SSD from 2020 from them, though no Zionism as much as I’m aware on it).
Samsung is more of a dumpster fire than specifically Zionist.
Another reason to stop using Samsung smh. The Devil army of Israel keeps showing it is the ultimate evil
Incredible. We have reached the point where it feels safer buying a random Chinese phone than Samsung or other “big brands”.
We have reached the point where it feels safer buying a random Chinese phone
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they got rid of that choice for you: the american carriers has pre-complied with trump by blacklisting all chinese phones based on their imea numbers; it no longer matters that it’s technologically feasible for it to work in the united states. so now, if you want premium phone quality but 1/3rd the price; you must buy an american brand and the full price tag.
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you don’t have anything the chinese gov’t wants, so they don’t care about keeping tabs on you. also buying into the propaganda that they’re tryping to keep tabs on your carries with it the implicit acceptance that you’re okay with the american gov’t keeping tabs on you.
yeah, anything out there that i could put out now, it’s already on stalker websites for like five bucks (since there’s a bunch of other Mes with the same name. Apparently I play hockey. I keep forgetting to follow “my” career tho i should look up Hockey Other Me sometime.
Your first point seems made up and I couldn’t quickly find a source for it; do you have one that I couldn’t find?
go visit your local t-mobile or at&t store and ask them about puting an unlocked chinese branded phone on their network.
I’m sending comment this from a T-Mobile plan using an unlocked OnePlus 9 pro my friend, hence my question.
that’s the one loophole in this effort to black list chinese branded phones; that non-chinese brands that use the same hardware are allowed on their networks and, until recently, i was looking for an oppo or oneplus that could leverage this loophole.
you’re fucked if you try to use a xiaomi or huawei or any other chinese brand that doesn’t share hardware w non-chinese brands like i have been doing for the last few years.
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Once again: Fuck Samsung and fuck Israel.
Shame that Samsung is the top selling Android vendor. I wasn’t aware of this when I went with Honor but I’m glad I did.
goes to show anything tech coming out of US, EU and its client states are not ever trustworthy… I would go as far as to e.g. not buy a Bosch fridge, never mind the other reasons not to.
One more example why big corporations are not your friends
At times like these I really want to just buy a spare burner flip phones… no additional use cases need. Dial/call in and out…
Samsung phone might be dangerous to your health and life, even in a case of being near oen. Even if you aren’t conspiring to send aid to Gaza, since they can probably also track people around you. Andd they do kill based on metadata. US and Israel, both.
