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		bitmapbrother on Aug 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How foreign governments spy using PowerPoint and T... Are you implying that you could create an Android exploit with "little bit of bad C code"? If so, I'm not sure you understand how exploits work and the work required to get around all of the mitigations in place.

girvo on Aug 3, 2016 [–]

Depends. Once you get root--and as others have noted above, that's far easier than it should be on most handsets--all bets are off really.

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