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Re:Code execution as root via AT commands on the Quectel EG2... by wthnrtghwr on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:28PM (#30304197)
Quectel, not Qualcomm.

Of course Pine has to treat it as unfixable -- the modem is already an untrusted component out of the box, and the FCC (and peers) would never allow Pine to ship their own modem firmware.

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Re:Code execution as root via AT commands on the Quectel EG2... by tinus_hn on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:10PM (#30307613)
Why not? Apple ships their own modem (‘baseband’) firmware.
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Re:Code execution as root via AT commands on the Quectel EG2... by xnzakg on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:25PM (#30307741)
The cost of re-certification of the modem with a new firmware is nothing for Apple, but way too much for a smaller company like Pine64.
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