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Re:Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder by zozbot234 on Sunday May 26, 2024 @05:47AM (#40480868)
Good luck trying to do that. Your average mobile phone is running heaps of undocumented proprietary firmware in parts of the hardware/SoC that typically have full access to the whole device - there are no meaningful security boundaries whatsoever in most of those devices. If you are minimally security-conscious or your security model involves possible exposure to even mildly sophisticated attacks, you should treat your mobile phone as a toy. The attack surface is just too large for making them even minimally reliable to be a serious possibility. Even if you fix one part of the problem (such as the SS7 network the article mentions) that doesn't address everything else that's still raising serious issues.
Re:Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder by qp11 on Sunday May 26, 2024 @07:59AM (#40481490)
This is why I just use Grandma's rotary phone when ever I need a phone. She even takes messages, when I am not around so works out quite well.
Re:Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder by sillyfluke on Sunday May 26, 2024 @10:51AM (#40482606)
I think you solved the aging population crisis. Enlist armies of grandmas for your Grandma-as-a-Service business.

The only chink in your armor would be that grandmas are also considered to be easily hackable over the phone.

Re:Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder by holonsphere on Sunday May 26, 2024 @10:56AM (#40482641)
That's the good half of the non-profit world in a nutshell.
Re:Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder by matheusmoreira on Sunday May 26, 2024 @05:11PM (#40485425)
Don't smartphones employ IOMMUs to isolate those things now? I thought baseband processor having full access was a thing of the past.
Re:Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder by DANmode on Monday May 27, 2024 @06:05AM (#40489312)
Very few.