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IAF asks personnel not to use Chinese 'Xiaomi Redmi 1s' phones

India Blooms News Service | | 25 Oct 2014, 01:44 pm
New Delhi, Oct 25 (IBNS): The Indian Air Force (IAF) asked its personnel and their families not to use Chinese ‘Xiaomi Redmi 1s’ phones as it believes these phones could be transferring data to their servers in China, media reports said.

An advisory issued by the IAF to its personnel said: “F-secure, a leading security solution company, recently carried out a test of Xiaomi Redmi 1s, the company's budget smartphone, and found that the phone was forwarding carrier name, phone number, IMEI (the device identifier) plus numbers from address book and text messages back to Beijing.”

The advisory was issued a few weeks ago. It was prepared by the intelligence unit based on the inputs from Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), reports said.

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