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Enter "the baseband". A dark, undocumented, hardly accessible, obfuscated piece of code that has access to your microphone, GPS, battery management and lots of
by endymi0n 11y ago
Enter "the baseband". A dark, undocumented, hardly accessible, obfuscated piece of code that has access to your microphone, GPS, battery management and lots of other gimmicks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722292
If I were a three-letter-agency I knew where to hide dead bodies while everyone was arguing over operating system security.
- username223 11y agoThat sure goes a long way toward showing how powerful Stingrays are, and why Harris and the government really, really don't want information about them getting out. I got a chuckle out of this near the end of the article: > Whenever someone does dive into baseband software, many bugs and issues are found, which raises the question just how long this rather dubious situation can continue. Well, the baseband software was written in the 90s, the article was written in 2013, and I'll bet nothing has changed in the last two years.
- shostack 11y agoReally have to wonder how many of these bugs and issues are "bugs" and "issues."