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No mention of the baseband source code. Unless everything running on the phone is open source, there cannot be a guarantee of privacy.
by idiot900 12y ago
No mention of the baseband source code. Unless everything running on the phone is open source, there cannot be a guarantee of privacy.
- pantaril 12y agoIf i understand it correctly there is no open source baseband available because of various patented technologies and it is imposible to create one. But why not treat the baseband as part of insecure transit network? I'd like to see phone where voice data and text messages would be securely encrypted before sending to baseband chip and securely decrypted on the other side. I think there would be great demand for such device but i don't see any in existence. Am i missing something?
- tonylemesmer 12y agoI think its because the baseband processor can access the microphone, screen and RAM semi-directly so its pointless having any encryption when you can just "key log" the screen as the user inputs the message. Please someone correct me. (I posted a sort of question below along these lines but not yet had a response)
- philtar 12y agoBasically, baseband can read the RAM. If you can ram dump you can do virtually anything, including get encryption keys.