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		coldtea on June 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Report: Chinese phone comes preloaded with spyware Why single out iPhone? How's that different from using an Android phone? Or for that matter any brand of phone + the prevalent mobile surveillance of messages, locations, etc?

fpgeek on June 18, 2014 [–]

The article already singled out Android. So far as I can tell, "Generic Star N9500" phone in question is an Android phone: http://www.amazon.com/Generic-Star-N9500-Android-MTK6589/dp/...

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