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TODAY IS THE 40th anniversary of the IRA bomb which exploded at the Houses of Parliament in London.
The bomb caused extensive damage and injured 11 people.
The IRA planted the 20lb device at the corner of Westminster Hall and gave a warning to the Press Association offices six minutes before the explosion.
The year, 1974, was when the IRA carried out a number of bombings in the UK. Other bombs went off at the Tower of London and on pubs in Guilford and Birmingham.
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there had been no instances of this flaw being used – but thanks to the journal you have provided more with a step by step directions on how to hack into phones… Cheers
To be far someone I doubt someone with the knowledge to use such a backdoor for malicious purposes is going to have found out about a backdoor via of the journal.
Publicity means the issue will be sorted quicker. The reason there’s no instances reported may be because people were unaware they were being hacked. Now they can be vigilant. Hackers already know this flaw if it’s made it to mainstream media, trust me.
And to be fair about the start of that comment it’s Monday.
Don’t know anyone who would use hangouts for SMS its a wreck head for this.
This vulnerability has been known for a while now
That’s what you get for choosing android over apple.
I’m still uncertain as to whether or not Emma is a troll or a simpleton.
I’m leaning towards troll.
Watch out for the hipster Android fanboys Emma!
Lean away Mark,
No system is going to be 100% secure, but some are better than others. You cannot fix stupid.
Sent from my iPhone.
What if Hangouts isn’t your default sms app?
If I’m not mistaken Apple have a few flaws as well.
Than you’re most likely safe. The title should say ‘Google Hangouts has a serious flaw that could allow hackers in with one text’.
That you are safe, as the exploit only affects Hangouts so the article title is a bit misleading
Oooh, what does this text say then? I am being the King of Nigeria, please give me unrestricted root access to your phone?
Why am I not surprised? When are people going to wake up to the Android scam and switch to the safety of the iPhone.
Sean bluntly that’s a silly comment. Nothing is 100% secure so your advice is use whatever phone you want ? Some phones are more secure than others. iPhones are more secure than Androids. Partly this is basic design. Android was originally designed as an open system. But mainly it is because a large proportion of Android users do not update to the latest more secure software version. There are numerous reasons for this but essentially the Android market is fragmented among many different phone manufacturers. Apple on the other hand is a single monolith. Finally Google owns the Android system which is designed to facilitate the mining of your data so that advertising can be sold. That is how Google make their money. Apple on the other hand make their money from their hardware.apple is safer but as many people don’t like it they use other systems. Fair enough. Everything is a trade off.
I have the Messages app that was on my SGS5 when I got it. I use Text Secure as my default app. Can I delete Hangouts as I never use it? Tia, Quinton.
You should be able to delete hangouts but you are not at risk if it is not your default SMS app
No, you can’t delete Hangouts (well, it may be possible by rooting the phone). However, you can disable it by going to Settings->Apps->Hangouts and then selecting Disable
Thanks for that, both of you!
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