Re: Privacy Concerns with UbuntuPhone

Hi Paul,

On 10 April 2014 08:26, Paul Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's not just the phone manufacturers though, it's likely that cell
> companies
> would not allow phones with easily hackable baseband stacks on their
> networks
> (they wouldn't let you have a SIM) - the problem is that cell services use
> protocols that depend on all phones playing  nicely with each other and
> their
> equipment, one hacked phone could easily bring down a cell tower or two (I
> used to do US cable protocol engineering that basically has similar sorts
> of
> issues, one bad box can bring down a neighbourhood)
>


Iiiiiinteresting. It sounds like someone with a hackable modem could do
some interesting things on a cell network then?

Not that I'd take part in such activities, of course. Seems like an area
ripe for security research though...

Cheers,
-- 
Thomi Richards

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