[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] smallthings:
You misunderstand. I wasn't talking about Stagefright at the point that I wrote the post that compelled force70 to accuse me of spouting "crap." I was talking about Certifi-gate. Certifi-gate affects not Android as a whole, but the specific multiple hidden remote control programs that are installed by carriers and makers (Samsung) on specific devices. That's why Google has washed itself clean of this issue, claiming no responsibility for it, and will be issuing no patches for it. It can only be fixed by carriers, makers, those who can create custom ROMs, and hackers good enough to root and disable/remove the offending remote control programs.

At least one of those remote control softwares is contained in your ROM. I tried to disable the one I thought it might be (it had "remote control" in the name of it), but I failed, according to the Certifi-gate scanner.

I did post about Stagefright earlier, after which Google presented a compelling case that Stagefright was difficult to actually exploit. Perhaps that is where some of this confusion arises. I edited that earlier comment to reflect that I believed that Stagefright was not such a big deal. Anyway, my concern now is Certifi-gate. It seems much worse to me, and gets practically none of the press coverage that Stagefright has.

A moderator specifically warned me not to discuss Certifi-gate any more in your forum, and I'm only doing so now because you are Rapture's creator. So I apologize, and will publicly answer no more questions about it.

I do feel that I have also been misunderstood in another way. I did not blame you at all for this security hole. I don't understand why you think I did. I wanted to bring these issues to light, and to get help dealing with them. When I look back over what I wrote, I just don't see how what I wrote could be considered blaming you. Yet both you and force70 feel that I have blamed you for this. TO BE CLEAR: I do not blame you. Your ROM is the best TW Note 4 ROM. I am thankful for it. Yet you are the only one who can remove the hidden remote control software from your ROM, and since Google will not be patching it, that's what I was wanting. Whatever security holes arise in the future, I will also not blame you for them either. But as the ROM maintainer, you are the one with control to deal with those issues. I'm not sure who I else should expect to be able to fix your ROM. The moderator that chastised me suggested I should go somewhere else with my certifi-gate concerns. That seemed non-sensical to me, and still does. But I don't wish to get banned. So I became silent about this issue, as I also will again after this response.

I would request that you, iB4STiD, PM me the language where you took offense, and thought I was blaming you. I apparently need to learn to communicate better and truly wish to see what that language was, so that I can not do that in the future. Blaming you was not my intention. Notifying you and the forum of the security problem was my intention. And Certifi-gate had not yet been mentioned.

I want to thank you, again, for putting Rapture together. And I apologize for the offense I have given to you, force70, and AlkaliV2.