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> phones being able to be eavesdropped/wiretapped even when turned off. Nobody is auditing the baseband firmware blobs, and with non-removable batteries phones
by SturgeonsLaw 5y ago
> phones being able to be eavesdropped/wiretapped even when turned off.
Nobody is auditing the baseband firmware blobs, and with non-removable batteries phones are never really turned off. I would be surprised if the NSA doesn't have a backdoor in it. Pure conjecture, of course, but the alphabet soup boys have the motivation, the ability, and the history, of getting their backdoors put into tech.
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- usrn 5y agoThe EG.25 (Pinephone modem) baseband (not the Linux firmware (and of course, not the application processor OS)) blob source was up on Github for a while. I read through part of it. I think they managed to get it taken down with a DMCA request and I haven't seen it since. I really wish I had cloned it locally, I don't know why I didn't.