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> a cell phone that is under the control of the user (and no, a "global single-sign on" sounds absolutely worse than "web3" <- whatever that is). The FCC does
by q-big 4y ago
> a cell phone that is under the control of the user (and no, a "global single-sign on" sounds absolutely worse than "web3" <- whatever that is).
The FCC does not allow this because of their certification requirements for the baseband processor. You can either lobby for this to change (good luck :-( ) or go the hacker way and build something that is under control of the user, but violates the laws.
- jacksonkmarley 4y agoWhat exactly does this mean? Doesn't the baseband processor exclusively handle the mobile communications? I thought the parent comment was more to do with OS running on the main processor.
- q-big 4y ago> Doesn't the baseband processor exclusively handle the mobile communications? Formerly, yes. But from 4G phones on, they rather communicate via DMA, i.e. the baseband part of the SoC has full access to the device's memory. Also see the relevant section in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baseband_processor&oldid=1075710204#Security_concerns https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baseband_processo...
- jiggunjer 4y agoDoes the EU have similar legislation?