>>It's a second processor that runs a proprietary firmware signed by the vendor (that the user cannot modify or substitute entirely with a FLOSS alternative) th

>>It's a second processor that runs a proprietary firmware signed by the vendor (that the user cannot modify or substitute entirely with a FLOSS alternative) that vendors can use do harm to the user. This is EXACTLY what all the major handsets/cellphones have had in them for a very long time. Carriers required certain side/backdoors into the devices.. which was really a tunnel for LEO/State...