Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platforms (2016)

Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by bubblethink on Friday March 03, 2017 @05:52PM (#13787645)

While it would be great to liberate x86, more than 4 billion people in the world use mobile phones, and phones are beyond saving. x86 is in very healthy shape compared to the clusterfuck that is the smartphone industry. If you think that coreboot is a fringe project, you need to head over to replicant or neo900 to see what the fringe actually is.

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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by xvilka on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:14PM (#13789224)

Well, then you can go deeper and check out baseband firmware liberation project - OsmocomBB [1], since baseband firmware in a far worse shape than applications firmware (and TrustZone firmware) in smartphone industry.

[1] https://osmocom.org/projects/baseband

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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by bubblethink on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:58PM (#13789365)

I don't think baseband can ever be truly free because of regulatory issues. The only realistic way of containing it would be through isolation.

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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by adrianN on Saturday March 04, 2017 @02:24AM (#13789795)

You could also change the regulatory framework.

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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by unlmtd on Saturday March 04, 2017 @11:32PM (#13794615)

So the revolutionary wars didn't happen?

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Re:Uncorrectable freedom and security issues on x86 platform... by hinkley on Friday March 03, 2017 @10:49PM (#13789119)

I thought Apple was working on their own baseband chip? I assume that's what you're alluding to, yeah?

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