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Can I, as a consumer that hypothetically owns one of these, control the software that is running on it?

• Someone1234 12y ago
  Can you, as a consumer control the baseband on your cellphone?
  • vezzy-fnord 12y ago
    I suppose with a lot of constraints that you can, using something like OsmocomBB: http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/ http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/
  • Crito 12y ago
    In practice, "No." to both. Which suggests that you are far more confident than you should be. Amazon publishes the leadership principles that they demand their employees aspire to: http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?node=239365011 http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?node=2393650... Look over those for a moment. Assume for the moment that Amazon engineers and their management take them seriously. When Amazon employees working on this project raised concerns about privacy, do you think that they were berated? Or do you think that they were heard out? The sort of attitude that you have towards these concerns is exactly what so many people fear. It is part of the reason those guideline principles were created.