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All they had to say was "baseband processor back doors" and drop the mic.
by danjoc 10y ago
All they had to say was "baseband processor back doors" and drop the mic.
- JoshTriplett 10y agoIf you're building a phone, don't give the baseband CPU any access to anything; that's a design flaw, and you can build a phone without it. And all your data should be encrypted, so exploiting or backdooring the baseband just gives you yet another way to look at that encrypted data.
- trendia 10y agoMany privacy and security concerns stem from the baseband processor -- from Stingrays to completely unknowable rootkits. The only real fix is to not use a proprietary baseband processor at all, though this would mean completely rethinking the mobile phone. (say, switching to long range WiFi)
- JoshTriplett 10y agoYou wouldn't need to switch technologies to go open; several groups have projects to develop Open Source modem firmware (and hardware, eventually).