Linux Phones

My heartfelt thanks to the FSF. It'd be lovely to one day be able to have a smartphone running open cell modem and chipset firmware.

Now, I could just trust the manufacturers... Snort, I can't even write that with a straight face.

Edit: And just minutes after reading this, what else do I see:

In a blog post published on Wednesday, FCC Chair Brendan Carr said the commission’s November agenda would include a vote to undo its Jan. 15 declaration that the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) “affirmatively requires telecommunications carriers to secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.”

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How is carrier security relevant in this context? Well, if the cell modem and / or chipset firmware includes hidden abilities for the carrier to push malicious updates to SIM card data or, say, remotely and silently activate the phone's microphone or perform other data exfiltration and if the carrier is compromised... Do I need to draw a diagram?

Edit 2: And then, of course, it's not rare to see posts like this: https://lemmy.world/post/38106386