Re: This is news?
I am also thinking, why would they do this? As in, why would a cheap repair shop be using more expensive parts to compromise phones that are probably mostly used by customers on lower budgets?
Sure it might make sense to do such a nefarious swap on some drug baron's phone to bypass security as part of a CIA sting operation, but I don't see enough general revenue for the risks to make a cheap repair shop go down that route. Not with Google already whoring most of your data from advertiser to advertiser as a "legitimate" business.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
