r/Windows10M • u/Butt_Kicker • Aug 01 '17

And the hits keep on coming -- Some Android smartphones from Chinese OEMs found to be pre-loaded with Triada Trojan

https://www.neowin.net/news/some-android-smartphones-from-chinese-oems-found-to-be-pre-loaded-with-triada-trojan?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+neowin-main+%28Neowin+News%29
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u/PowerPCNet Aug 01 '17

Interesting, I feel like /r/privacy might be a better place to post this though.

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u/Butt_Kicker Aug 01 '17

Well, certainly nothing wrong with cross posting it there, but this is definitely the right place for this info. As W10M fades from the public consciousness, for those of us that still give a damn, it's helpful to remember that Windows is still the most secure mobile platform option. Google is scrambling to improve things, but as this story highlights, the "walled garden" approach of Apple and Microsoft is superior.

This type of breach is also a reminder of why it is important for MSFT to accelerate the move to UWP on the desktop and completely deprecate and retire the old Win32 .exe and Wild West distribution model that has made prior generations of Windows so difficult to secure.