But then he heard it: the faint doot-doot of a Samsung USB connection. The tool refreshed. A log appeared in the window:

The mirror was a plain FTP server in Belarus. No SSL. No branding. Just a lone file: samfw_v4.1.exe

“SamFW tool 4.1 download,” he typed.

He leaned back, heart still pounding. Then he saw something strange. In the tool’s status bar, below the “About” tab, was a small checkbox labeled: “Enable backdoor (dev only).”