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On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Christian Kellermann <[email protected]> wrote: > * Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> [160730 19:41]: >> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/hybrid_phone/ lot happening in >> >>> a very short amount of time. this proposed phone design has a >> >>> hardware kill-switch on the modem. cuts the power entirely. >> >> >> >> It would be great, if this could be come to life too. >> > >> > working on it. slowly. one thing at a time. >> >> btw, one of the reasons for starting a smart-ish phone with a hard >> kill switch on the modem is down to a story where i accidentally found >> out that there are over-the-air arbitrary remote code execution paths >> in these modems. >> >> i had been asked by dr stallman to investigate the possibility of >> hard-disabling firmware updates in a 3G modem. the sales person that >> i spoke to *misunderstood* my enquiry, and accidentally answered the >> question "is it possible for governments or other third parties to >> arbitrarily load and run executables over-the-air without the >> end-user's knowledge?" with an implicit "yes". >> > > This is part of the GSM standard. The SIMs need to be able to run Java > applets insider their processor. Allowing the tracking of the device > amongst other things. This has been made public in 2013: jaezuss. ok thank you. > https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5449_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312271715_-_mobile_network_attack_evolution_-_karsten_nohl_-_luca_melette > > Kind regards, > > Christian > > -- > May you be peaceful, may you live in safety, may you be free from > suffering, and may you live with ease. > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
