With everything that happened with Stagefright, it seems that we were going to have a quiet time without being alerted by some other virus or problem that had to do with an Android device. Having said that, surely you will be attentive to that way of violating the security that we have on a mobile phone due to a user who has searched for them to find a very important security flaw.
A video demonstrates how you can bypass the mobile lock Without having to know the PIN or the code, something that will surely alarm you if you have an Android device, which is precisely with the version with which the vulnerability is present. So any user can spend a few minutes accessing the content of our mobile without having to know the password or PIN that we have assigned to keep our device secure.
Android Lollipop and its security flaw
It must be taken into account that this vulnerability is present in terminals that have version between Android 5.0 and 5.1.1, so if you have the LMY48M version you can breathe because it doesn't affect you. These versions have a handicap in which the phone seems to find it difficult to maintain a large number of characters where we usually enter the password.
Now, the failure itself serves to use the emergency call dialer to constantly copy and paste characters until there comes a time when the system can no longer handle it. As if there were an inopportune closure, suddenly the camera opens and as if by magic the phone is unlocked to the surprise of those who want to take over the interiors of it.
The unlock pattern as a solution
For those of you who have those versions, you have a prompt solution which is to use an unlock pattern while the update arrives or they don't want to wait for it to be available. Also count on the fact that to be able to perform the unlocking method it takes a little time as you can see in the shared video, so if someone starts to do it and you see them typing a lot, it will be a matter of telling them to leave it.
This also confirms that when it comes to software, there can always be some nook and cranny and that the QA departments must function fully to avoid any failure that causes security breaches like this. And it does not only happen in the software, just last year, in the previous edition of the iPhone, it could even bend a little if pressure was exerted. Which leads us to the fact that some devices that are used by millions of people and on which rapid manufacturing depends plus continuous updates, errors like these may appear.
As was always said, The rush is not good counselors. We can always relegate to having a good behavior as it happens with the unlock patterns, which are the solution here, but if they are convoluted as we commented in this post, better than better.
Really!!! The user of the video was bored, he had nothing better to do !!! In my opinion and it is only my opinion, if my phone is stolen, or I lose it, I don't think the person will spend 10 minutes trying these bullshit, unless my phone falls into the hands of a geek, which in this case, If you could just take it easy and try those manipulations.
But if the guy was not a geek, he would remove the sd from the mobile, connect it to something that allows him to get data, and he would not break his head with that on the mobile, he would try to format it and go.
But I find it interesting to know that this failure exists, because there is always the possibility that they will.
There is always the possibility. Apart from entering someone else's phone, even if you don't want to steal it, it always draws the attention of many people.
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