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And even if you trust the OS, you have no idea what is going on on the phone's baseband processor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor https://en
by junto 11y ago
And even if you trust the OS, you have no idea what is going on on the phone's baseband processor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor
One has to assume that all are back-doored. Mobile phones are inherently not trustable.
Same goes for all major firewall vendors. If you going to hack one of them as a nation state, then you're going to do all of them.
- garrettgrimsley 11y agoThere is at least one project that seeks to mitigate the threat posed by baseband processors having DMA, Neo900: http://neo900.org/faq#privacy http://neo900.org/faq#privacy
- hdmoore 11y agoEven if you trust the OS and the baseband, you have to trust that the federated server for Signal (OpenWhisper, Cyanogen, etc) isn't storing contact discovery requests.