Baseband vulnerability could mean undetectable, unblockable attacks on mobile phones

[ficuswhisperer]

Hey, @ActionAbe. Remember when you posted about this several years ago?

Why Your Cellphone is Inherently Insecure

An interesting article that covers a topic I’ve considered before. I thought about it for two seconds and went “Nah, I’m sure they’ve got that covered.” It has to do with this: I’ve always known this, and I’m sure most of you do too, but we never really talk about it. Every smartphone or other device with mobile communications capability (e.g. 3G or LTE) actually runs not one, but two operating systems. Aside from the operating system that we as end-users see (Android, iOS, PalmOS), it also r…