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Baseband processors in all mobiles have direct access to the microphone and it is fairly trivial to access remotely. Comes as standard on all stingray devices available to any and all perverts willing to use it.

Only Samsung devices have been shown to give the baseband processor backdoor access to device storage. Afaik.




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