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It seems strange to me that the Snowden is only now mentioning the "text message" attack vector, after everyone already knows about Stagefright. Is he out of th
by sigmar 11y ago
It seems strange to me that the Snowden is only now mentioning the "text message" attack vector, after everyone already knows about Stagefright. Is he out of things to leak? or did he mention it before and go unnoticed?
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- kentt 11y agoYes, he had mentioned it before. Of the top of my head, in "No Place to Hide" he discusses it, but I'm sure you could find a better source if necessary.
- justin66 11y agoHe handed all his confidential and sensitive documents to reporters before fleeing so, in a real sense, he is "out of things to leak." He seems to be transitioning to a role of explaining to the mainstream press, in short words they can understand, what is going on.
- sweden 11y agoThe kind of attacks that he is referring are located at the lower levels of the phone, at the SoC level, not at the operating system level. It's something that neither Apple nor Google can control.
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoAllow me to quote the first sentence from the Wikipedia article linked to below: Apple Inc. has developed a range of "System on Chip" (SoC) as well as "System in Package" (SiP) to power their mobile consumer devices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_system_on_a_chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_system_on_a_chip
- spacemanmatt 11y agoThat's still only the processor that runs iOS. They don't make their own cell processor.
- sigmar 11y agowhat? By "cell processor" do you mean radio hardware? Because that is indeed contained within the SoC.
- saurik 11y agoIf you pull up a tear down of an iPhone 6 you will see the Qualcomm MDM9625M is clearly an entirely separate chip from the Apple A8, and is halfway across the circuit board.