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Re:GrapheneOS – A privacy and security-focused mobile OS wit... by wuschel on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:30AM (#20153767)
> There is a caveat for the baseband, but that's because it's not legal in most countries to sell or use baseband hardware that is free software (unless the user is licensed and even then it's non-trivial).

Interesting, I did not know that. What are the reasons for this? Military application? Are these laws subject to change?

I always thought that there is no way to separate the CPU from the baseband/communications PU.

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Re:GrapheneOS – A privacy and security-focused mobile OS wit... by cyphar on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @05:51AM (#20154035)
It's my understanding that the issue is one of FCC certification and licensing -- the FCC won't approve something which can be easily modified to transmit on non-free frequencies (tools which can usually are sold to hamradio license holders, which should know better and know how much trouble they can get into).
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