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Since smartphones are already locked down by their vendors, the cops have a point.
by amelius 11mo ago
Since smartphones are already locked down by their vendors, the cops have a point.
- Denvercoder9 11mo agoSome smartphones are locked down by their vendors. There's plenty of options to get full root access on something that's for all intents and purposes a smartphone, especially if you don't particularly care about warranty and/or keeping commerical apps functional.
- kube-system 11mo agoThe radio on all commercially available smartphones are locked down to meet regulatory requirements and runs on an entirely different CPU from the Android OS that you might have root on.
- Denvercoder9 11mo agoThe same's true for the radio on a Raspberry Pi, though.
- kube-system 11mo agoTrue but they are commonly used to control other non-consumer (e.g. unregulated) radios via GPIO, and in POCs for threat exploitation demonstrations which are all over YouTube for idiots to mimic... and unlike phones they aren't carried around by almost everyone on a daily basis.
- ssl-3 11mo agoI simply adore how flexibly-placed the goalposts are in this particular game of Calvinball.
- kube-system 11mo agoSeriously, this thread reads almost as if 5 different people have chimed in with their own individual thoughts
- ssl-3 11mo agoI'd reply very directly and in earnest, but such a reply would violate the guidelines.
- bigyabai 11mo agoSmartphones need to remove their agnostic USB-C power source, otherwise nefarious parties will use it to power a radio jammer! Pretty soon we'll all be texting each other on tin cans tied together with string. Until one of the cops trips over our cables.
- throwup238 11mo ago> Smartphones need to remove their agnostic USB-C power source, otherwise nefarious parties will use it to power a radio jammer! OTG SDRs usually come with power splitter cables to power the radio from a battery pack anyway :)
- el_memorioso 11mo agoIt is trivial to get an older, unlocked cell phone that you can root. You then have a device equally or more powerful than a Raspberry Pi with built-in radios.
- giancarlostoro 11mo agoI can host a wifi router and a Raspberry Pi with a web server that then connect to my phone regardless of OS and now I can run anything remotely. You cannot lock down any OS that has a browser and wifi. I don't need root, just under $50 worth of equipment.