Re:A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
by jmkb on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:22PM
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> When all three switches are off, power is also killed to sensors a la "Lockdown Mode"
Personally, with all these switches off, I'd still want GPS for offline navigation.
Re:A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
by RandomBacon on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:26PM
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Maybe there are two contacts you could bridge. Are you good with a soldering iron?
Re:A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
by batoure on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:36AM
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this article is probably worth reading.
https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurd...
Purism can't guarantee someone won't try to flash that firmware. so the best solution they came up with was to create a parallel chip to store the firmware they have vetted to be safe and to overwrite the modem or wifi firmware with their version of the binaries anytime a change to the other firmware is pushed through
Is there any way to mitigate this if one wants to keep Wifi and Bluetooth?
I guess if one really wanted to be pure then, they could just keep the second (of three, see below) hardware switches off, and even possibly de-solder a connection, to ensure they aren't accidently flipped on.
Hardware Switches:
- cameras and microphone
- WiFi and Bluetooth
- cellular baseband
(When all three switches are off, power is also killed to sensors a la "Lockdown Mode")