An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones

Not that quietly it seems.

I'd be concerned that any phone company that works with Israel might modify their phones to explode.

Israelis deserve all of the ire coming their way.

"For our next terrorism we need something better than exploding pagers. Does anyone know a company that does exploding phones?"

samsung was always garbage for a variety of reasons beyond just the spyware they like to put in them. their halo products are decent and even then.