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Samsung phones are spontaneously texting users’ photos to random contacts without their permission

8 comments

  1. [8]
    jprich
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    Oh no! Some random person will get pictures from my folders of: a) my deceased kitty b) dnd/fantasy/sci fi art c) meme/animated gifs lol

    Oh no! Some random person will get pictures from my folders of:
    a) my deceased kitty
    b) dnd/fantasy/sci fi art
    c) meme/animated gifs

    lol

    3 votes
    1. [6]
      Gaywallet
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      hey man I've got some rare fuckin pepes and I don't want to diminish their value by having them randomly sent to people Seriously though... how does this even happen? To me it seems like it...

      hey man I've got some rare fuckin pepes and I don't want to diminish their value by having them randomly sent to people

      Seriously though... how does this even happen? To me it seems like it signals some sort of backdoor or spying effort by Samsung that went wrong.

      13 votes
      1. [2]
        JamesTeaKirk
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        It sounds like they've been updating the sms app to look more like a wifi messenger. The speculation is that the latest update borked something

        It sounds like they've been updating the sms app to look more like a wifi messenger. The speculation is that the latest update borked something

        7 votes
        1. someBODYonce
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          I don't think it would mess up that much. As ~Gaywallet says, I think that Samsung has been doing some spying on us. FBI man memes should now be Samsung Employee memes!

          I don't think it would mess up that much. As ~Gaywallet says, I think that Samsung has been doing some spying on us. FBI man memes should now be Samsung Employee memes!

          2 votes
      2. [2]
        jprich
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        To me it seems like it signals some sort of backdoor or spying effort by Samsung that went wrong.
        That would be my guess as well.

        3 votes
        1. Tardigrade
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          That sounds really scary. Hopefully that isn't the case but I don't know what else it could be.

          That sounds really scary. Hopefully that isn't the case but I don't know what else it could be.

          3 votes
      3. talklittle
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        A cover my ass situation by a Samsung engineer? "Your Honor, my client did not intend to send a nude photo of himself to her. It was a bug in his texting app. Uh, yes, he does happen to be on the...

        A cover my ass situation by a Samsung engineer? "Your Honor, my client did not intend to send a nude photo of himself to her. It was a bug in his texting app. Uh, yes, he does happen to be on the team that works on the app, but I don't see how that is relevant to this case?"

        3 votes
    2. Tardigrade
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      Similarly or some random drunk party photos autosaved from group chats.

      Similarly or some random drunk party photos autosaved from group chats.

      2 votes