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Re:Brave, the false sensation of privacy by zikduruqe on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:08PM (#27551817)
^ This. Prior to Apple, the phone OEMs and carriers had hooks all into your baseband firmware for all kinds of things; firmware updates, CALEA hooks, automatic provisioning, etc...

Source - used to certify these things in a lab environment.

Re:Brave, the false sensation of privacy by graderjs on Friday June 18, 2021 @09:21PM (#27556906)
That's great to know. I'd like to feel reassured but I'm sure there's new exploits somewhere, the carrier level i think is just so attractive to large scale actors. Any internet links to read up on this, and on the next generation of possible carrier level exploit vectors?