Samsung phones are spontaneously texting users’ photos to random contacts (opens in new tab)

For any Samsung users who want to try and avoid this until a fix is pushed: 1. Open settings widget. 2. Click on Apps. 3. Click on the Messages app. 4. Select Permissions. 5. Toggle 'Storage' off.

This sound eerily similar to a recent instance when Amazon's Alexa recorded and transmitted a private conversation of a Portland family to a random contact, just a couple months ago. [0]

This is some bad publicity for the tech industry at large. Hope the team at Samsung figures this out soon.

[0] https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-devic...

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17445529 (80 comments)

I really hope this bug has a post mortem.

Shouldn't the news here be that ppl use Samsung's msging apps?