Horses, like art, is expensive. Variable price means good for laundering.
https://www.coolpad.com/
Coolpad Group Limited formerly known as China Wireless Technologies Limited is a Caymans-incorporated holding company. Its major subsidiary Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., is a Chinese telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It was a large smartphone company in China (as of 2012)[2][3] and the largest Chinese domestic brand by sales outside of China (as of 2014).[4] From January to June 2012, the company had a market share of shipments of 10.4% phones of China.
Controversies
On 17 December 2014, Palo Alto Networks announced it had found a backdoor on many Coolpad handsets, and dubbed it "CoolReaper".
https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/coolreaper-revealed-backdoor-coolpad-android-devices/
CoolReaper can perform the following tasks:
Download, install, or activate any Android application without user consent or notification
Clear user data, uninstall existing applications, or disable system applications
Notify users of a fake over-the-air (OTA) update that doesn’t update the device, but installs unwanted applications
Send or insert arbitrary SMS or MMS messages into the phone.
Dial arbitrary phone numbers
Upload information about device, its location, application usage, calling and SMS history to a Coolpad server
Ugh. ESP. That leads back to Robert J Lifton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milieu_control
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