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Intel ME and cellular baseband are particularly worrisome. They are essentially separate and inaccessible (outside of very restricted APIs) systems with their o
by jaywalk 5y ago
Intel ME and cellular baseband are particularly worrisome. They are essentially separate and inaccessible (outside of very restricted APIs) systems with their own CPU, running their own OS and applications with the lowest level access to all hardware.
- kragen 5y agoThanks for the correction!
- matheusmoreira 5y agoCellular baseband modem is especially evil since lack of software freedom is mandated by law. It controls the phone's radiofrequency emissions which means it must only ever run government-approved software. There's just no telling what this thing does and the best we can hope for is isolation from the rest of the phone.