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Re:Pinephone first steps by eeZah7Ux on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:14PM (#23147147)
Please. Commercial phones "security model" is to protect themselves from the user, and that's about it. The baseband itself is the main backdoor.
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Re:Pinephone first steps by ta17711771 on Monday May 11, 2020 @06:54PM (#23148161)
The chips are built to mitigate this now.

And upon reboot, a proper verified boot, as well as Auditor &or Attestation, lets you know, with cryptographic proof, whether your phone's firmware has been compromised by such a piece of hardware.

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Re:Pinephone first steps by eeZah7Ux on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:52AM (#23165208)
...and yet they are choke full of spyware.

In the context of a proprietary phone, secure boot and all of that is the new tivoization.

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