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Good luck trying to do that. Your average mobile phone is running heaps of undocumented proprietary firmware in parts of the hardware/SoC that typically have fu
by zozbot234 2y ago
Good luck trying to do that. Your average mobile phone is running heaps of undocumented proprietary firmware in parts of the hardware/SoC that typically have full access to the whole device - there are no meaningful security boundaries whatsoever in most of those devices. If you are minimally security-conscious or your security model involves possible exposure to even mildly sophisticated attacks, you should treat your mobile phone as a toy. The attack surface is just too large for making them even minimally reliable to be a serious possibility. Even if you fix one part of the problem (such as the SS7 network the article mentions) that doesn't address everything else that's still raising serious issues.
- qp11 2y agoThis is why I just use Grandma's rotary phone when ever I need a phone. She even takes messages, when I am not around so works out quite well.
- sillyfluke 2y agoI think you solved the aging population crisis. Enlist armies of grandmas for your Grandma-as-a-Service business. The only chink in your armor would be that grandmas are also considered to be easily hackable over the phone.
- holonsphere 2y agoThat's the good half of the non-profit world in a nutshell.
- matheusmoreira 2y agoDon't smartphones employ IOMMUs to isolate those things now? I thought baseband processor having full access was a thing of the past.
- DANmode 2y agoVery few.