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It's still a common meme that on modern phones the baseband has full access to whatever it wants. The available evidence (which admittedly is very scant) and co
by DCKing 8y ago
It's still a common meme that on modern phones the baseband has full access to whatever it wants. The available evidence (which admittedly is very scant) and common sense suggests that this is not true, not in iPhones or common chipsets used in Android phones.
It may have been true on older phones with simpler system architectures but you're really going to need some new evidence to show the meme still holds true.
- pvg 8y agoavailable evidence (which admittedly is very scant) How do you figure? When Apple or Google say 'baseband is constrained from accessing OS memory in the following ways', these aren't unverifiable claims. People would be doing demos at conferences showing malicious basebands thieving your private catpictures.
- mixmastamyk 8y ago> you're really going to need some new evidence to show the meme still holds true. Uhh no, that’s not how security assurances work.
- DCKing 8y agoOnly if you ignore the other part of my comment that circumstantial evidence of this more sensible system architecture does exist [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10907317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10907317
- xte 8y agoMh, from GSM official docs SIM cards are small OSes with yes a limited power, but not that limited, they can officially set various kind of phone options, use speakerphone etc. Of course that does not automatically means that those systems do exists like fictional echelon project but potentially power is there and know tech also...