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Another "natural" direction would have been to work on the security of smartphones.
by Kototama 8y ago
Another "natural" direction would have been to work on the security of smartphones.
- wanderfowl 8y agoConsidering the amount of pain going into fighting the million drivers and black-box chips in a commodity X86 box where you can run user code as root, I can't imagine a smartphone would provide anything but suffering for a Qubes-style security project. Unless, of course, $OEM was directly on board with the research or work, and willing to modify the software and hardware as needed.
- seba_dos1 8y agoLibrem 5 from Purism, PinePhone from Pine64, Necuno Mobile from Necuno... even the DragonBox Pyra if you really stretch it. In 2018, it starts to seem doable again :P
- jazzyjackson 8y agoThat would probably turn into a silicon fabbing endeavor since almost everything that can talk to a cell network is proprietary
- shmerl 8y agoSo someone should make a project to open this up?
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoThat's not entirely true these days. I have a ADALM-PLUTO sdr that can do duplex from 70MHz-6GHz. Only 5mW (7dBm) Tx. But there is a Gnu Radio gr-gsm and gr-lte plugins to make your own client (cell phone) and server (tower). There was also a nice talk at DerbyCon that went further in what you need to do to handle tower ops.