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Open source baseband only won't be enough, there are plenty of CPUs/MCUs capable of running backdoors/malware spread on any modern board (heck, even battery con
by kbart 9y ago
Open source baseband only won't be enough, there are plenty of CPUs/MCUs capable of running backdoors/malware spread on any modern board (heck, even battery controller often runs on a full fledged MCU). Until we have an open hardware + software, we will never be safe from government and other well-funded crooks.
- jwfxpr 9y ago> Open source baseband only won't be enough, Not sufficient, perhaps, but necessary. A 0-day in baseband firmware seems a helluva lot more attractive a target than in a battery controller MCU.
- ethbro 9y agoExactly. Such is the entire point of a firewall. If you don't have a remotely exploitable vulnerability, it doesn't scale to global panopticon levels.
- adrianratnapala 9y agoLet not the perfect be the enemy of the good though. Every time I hear someone asking for some improvement in openness and security, someone jumps in to point out how something else will circumvent it. Fine -- but how is anything going to get done if we sit paralysed a proliferation of worries?