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Why not explain away the myth? I'd like to know why it isn't. A rootkit doesn't necessarily need access to every ring of a system, just enough to compromise it
by serf 8y ago
Why not explain away the myth?
I'd like to know why it isn't. A rootkit doesn't necessarily need access to every ring of a system, just enough to compromise it .
Is there some reason that you seem to be purposely vague when speaking about basebands in these kind of threads? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906188 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906188 )
The baseband may not have as much authority as some purport, but it's still a subsystem with it's own code and purpose -- and (like any other subsystem), a villain could theoretically use this to their advantage in all sorts of imaginable ways.
(tl;dr : DMA isn't needed to be evil. It's just nice.)
- tptacek 8y agoYou've argued yourself back to the null hypothesis here. The original argument was that there was something special about the baseband peripheral that made smartphones a unique threat. No, there is not.
- blarpblarp 8y agoAdmit that you're just some dork who throws around the bulk of some accumulated reputation points when it suits you. Simple negation is not a substantive response. Your trading on the clout of your username, and nothing more.