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by g_p 10y ago
Beware of this if you are on a OPO running a Cyngn firmware: https://www.reddit.com/r/oneplus/comments/5k8ppv/former_cyan... Not really a brilliant source, but I'd be inclined to believe it in this
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by g_p 10y ago
Absolutely - userland is the easiest to exploit, as it's fairly common across all devices (thanks to CTS and standardisation of the runtime) - that's why stagefright was such a big deal! Definitely agreed - I've thought about
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by g_p 10y ago
I suspect this was one of their biggest/only assets. I wonder (purely from a thought experiment point of view) how the original spin-out could have gone if the project had kept the name in trust and granted a worldwide exclusive licens
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by g_p 10y ago
GPL is the route that OmniROM tried to go down, in order to attempt to ensure that the ROM remained community focused and true to its roots. One potential issue with CM is that users were signing contributor license agreements (CLAs) to the
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by g_p 10y ago
Secondary source since the website seems down right now. http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/12/24/cyanogen-shutting-se... At some point before 31st December (at the latest), according to their blog post. In re
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by g_p 10y ago
Not directly an answer, but one of the big issues with security patches for custom ROMs is the amount of patches they don't (read can't) ship. The proprietary blobs are very often not patched when the device is vendor-supported, a
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by g_p 10y ago
For anyone interested in this, it's worth also taking a look at a related follow-up paper discussing a weakness in the use of the interlock technique for authentication [0]. I recognised the title here and recalled reading this paper
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by g_p 10y ago
I read it to mean something different; I think the advisory being referred to is the FreeBSD advisory they wrote themselves [1]. The impact statement said: > An attacker who can control the patch file can cause a crash or run arbitrary c
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by g_p 10y ago
There is a (free) ebook I found, which takes a practical/exercise based approach to learning about SDRs [0]. It seems to work up from a basic comms background. [0] http://www.desktopsdr.com/
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by g_p 11y ago
Cryptomator [1] looks like it fits the bill for what you described. Seems to use a transparent mapped virtual WebDAV drive to make it usable. From my experiments at least, it seems it should be usable by non-technical people without signifi