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Chinese reaction? I'm thinking nothing.

People who care about this privacy issue usually don't use ZTE. No offense, but ZTE aims at the entry-level consumers, most of whom don't know what root is and only buy ZTE for the low price.

Besides, in China, there are way more to be worried than this non-issue. You know it...

Isn't ZTE a chineese corporation? It seems to me possible, that not only does China know this exists, they ordered it.

I don't understand why there is so much xenophobia about this exploit. A government backdoor would be far more capable and sophisticated than this. Occam's razor applies here: an suid debug binary was left in the production image by accident.

Because "China". :)

Anyone who thinks the Chinese government had anything to do with this is just an idiot.

> I'm looking out for the Chinese reaction to this is.

Free root form the manufacturer! Time to install another ROM.