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Allwinner left a developer backdoor in their Android kernel

Allwinner is a pretty big company in China that produces SoCs for a number of low-cost Android smartphones and tablets.

They use their own kernel in Android products that use their SoC and it's just been discovered that they left a very easy to access backdoor in the code.
 

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