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Without GSM, you only eliminate the excuse for a baseband backdoor. How do you eliminate their motivation for adding the backdoor? What if they put it it anothe
by hrjet 12y ago
Without GSM, you only eliminate the excuse for a baseband backdoor. How do you eliminate their motivation for adding the backdoor? What if they put it it another chip connected to the bus?
- walterbell 12y agoMotivation is likely stable :) Some protection against malicious firmware/hardware can come from ARM's IOMMU with an open-source Type-1 hypervisor, but these are not mainstream yet. Whatever the technical merits of Blackphone, their marketing is increasing awareness of mobile security. If they can prove demand for this category of solution, it will increase security audits of all mobile hardware & software stacks.
- hrjet 12y ago> their marketing is increasing awareness of mobile security That I agree and I really hope that it works. But on that note, I don't like the name Blackphone. When I hear "black" I associate it with nefarious activities; and that meaning suggests that only those with criminal purposes need privacy.