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A lot of phones nowadays are glued shut, you'll budget for a trained repair tech to do that. They also use the battery as a giant capacitor to absorb spike draw
by numpad0 2mo ago
A lot of phones nowadays are glued shut, you'll budget for a trained repair tech to do that. They also use the battery as a giant capacitor to absorb spike draws that wall chargers cannot provide, so the modified device will need that capacity as well. Finally, there will be some radio certification ambiguity as to whether it's legal for a legal company to operate.
That said... there are Chinese rackable phone KVM thing, available on Chinese e-commerce sites, intended for social media fraud farms(faking likes, aiding account thefts, sending scam DMs, calls, SMS, etc). Taking them apart should be already common in those scenes. Reportedly those are operating at some scales globally in various third world scam malls - shopping malls by architecture, but operated by gangs and inhabited by scam shops. So it's readily possible, if necessary.
- madwolf 2mo agoany way to find those rackable phone kvm things? My quick search came up empty. I might get someone interested in that. However, we're a very big European corporation, so "let's use social media fraud farms" and "hire talent from scam malls to build them" might not fly in a meeting :P
- numpad0 2mo agohttps://chinese.alibaba.com/product-detail/Mobile-Phone-Group-Control-Equipment-Motherboard-1601460564510.html https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/For-Samsung-Custom-Packaging-OTG-Memory_1601872798649.html https://aliexpress.com/item/1005010070778997.html https://aliexpress.com/item/1005012481751631.html https://www.tiktok.com/@xbus260430425/video/7671530564876258573 https://www.tiktok.com/@xbus260430425/video/7663701554905582862 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP_UrdhEm8R/ Took me few minutes, but looks like one query that works for these on Alibaba/AliExpress/taobao is "click farming phone". "手机 主板 服務器"(phone mainboard server) might also work in some places. I see bunch of multi GPU crypto mining style chassis as well as just USB mass charger styled ones. This is something I just came across randomly so I have no experiences or connections for these, but hope this helps. It's kind of cool looking if it weren't for scams. edit: note, it's not clear if they come with the phone PCBs or phones are customer supplied. The "boards" mentioned in some of listing seem to imply that it refers to adapter boards for the phones, through subtle wording