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Re:Smartphones with Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information ... by the_third_wave on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:47PM (#35708188)
Yes, it claims AMSS can control hardware. It also claims data is exfiltrated. Read carefully and you'll see it does not claim the data is exfiltrated through AMSS - they're using WiFi for their experiment which has nothing to do with AMSS, the mobile radio firmware.

Correlation does not equate causation but they want you to think it does so you run to their web shop to buy a rebranded Google Pixel 7 (with Samsung's Exynos 5300 radio modem and accompanying firmware which has just as much control over the hardware as Qualcomm's AMSS has...).

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Re:Smartphones with Qualcomm Chip Share Private Information ... by luca020400 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:06AM (#35726251)
Yep, everything you said is correct.

The AMSS has control of the hardware, but there's different components, each implementing different functionality, they may be able to talk with each other using various IPC mechanism, and they do, but mostly using Android as a middleman ( Linux )

WiFi ( known as cnss on QCOM ) is implemented in a different block than GPS, they don't have direct communication in place. It's routed via the Linux kernel ( and userspace processes )

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