Sensible advice really. If they've hidden this sort of capability that can be remotely activated, who knows what else the filthy spying scum have squirreled away in their source code?
Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorship concerns | South China Morning PostLithuania’s defence ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities.
Flagship phones sold in Europe by China’s smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as “Free Tibet”, “Long live Taiwan independence” or “democracy movement”, Lithuania’s state-run cybersecurity body said on Tuesday.
The capability in Xiaomi’s Mi 10T 5G phone software had been turned off for the “European Union region”, but can be turned on remotely at any time, the defence ministry’s National Cyber Security Centre said in the report.
“Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible,” Defence Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevicius told reporters in introducing the report.
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A security flaw was also found in the P40 5G phone by China’s Huawei Technologies Co. but none was found in the phone of another Chinese maker, OnePlus, it said.