{"id":42985,"date":"2021-09-22T20:36:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/lithuania-tells-its-citizens-to-throw-xiaomi-mobile-devices-in-the-bin\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:36:06","slug":"lithuania-tells-its-citizens-to-throw-xiaomi-mobile-devices-in-the-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/lithuania-tells-its-citizens-to-throw-xiaomi-mobile-devices-in-the-bin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lithuania’s National Cyber Security Centre has told its citizens to get rid of Xiaomi-made mobile devices amid fears that the Chinese company could remotely enable censorship tools.<\/p>\n

In an audit it published yesterday [PDF<\/a>] the agency called out Xiaomi’s Mi 10T 5G phone handset firmware for being able to censor terms such as “Free Tibet”, “Long live Taiwan independence” or “democracy movement”.<\/p>\n

Defence Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevicius told reporters<\/a> at the audit’s release: “Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible.”<\/p>\n