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Hey duked. I just returned from Hong Kong (on vacation) and used two BLU Advance 5.0 phones as burners for use while in-country. I take precautions whenever I travel overseas.

I've got two phones here that were used during my trip there. I was wondering if you had any tips for figuring out of they were compromised or otherwise owned while I was out there.

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Hi, our findings are specific to the BLU R1HD. What you can do is have man in the middle proxy for your device and look at the traffic. Funny enough we actually bought the R1HD for the same reason as you... We had a conference in Taiwan and wanted a burner and BLU looked awesome for the price ;)

That was my thinking as well.

I do INFOSEC for a living and needed to make sure I wasn't bringing back any compromised devices when I returned. So far, the two phones have remained powered down while I come up with a plan to examine them.

It would be interesting to see if they are loaded with malware out of the box or if there is something going on when they are used in country.

You can start by not buying cheap Chinese Android phones and hoping for the best.

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