Your Mobile Phones are hacked using Fake Replacement Parts When sent for repair. Are you aware ?
To the layman, a chip may be just a chip but its utility is more than just making your smartphone work. Even screens, external slots, camera and other attachments have enough hardware capability on them to act as potential hack vectors. There have been multiple researches on this point that a simple chip replacement or addition can compromise your smartphone significantly. The major source of such hacks have undoubtedly been the mobile repair centers. More so in India than anywhere else, there is a workaround presented for any hardware glitch. Glitches that the manufacturers themselves never claim to fix. Your iPhone charging port goes wrong; the authorized service centers only offer to replace the phone at a staggering cost whereas a local market guy will replace the charging port for $10. The source of these replacement parts are unknown, all the repair centers know is that they get it without any branding or packaging but they have good results. In what researchers are calling ...