Yeah.. Watch the vid I linked and hammerdatphoon.jpg :)
My post was about devices to be connected to debian main and other libre
gnulinux
systems. The argument on this forum is, your best option is to buy hardware
devices which run entirely on libre software.
The person I mentioned says, criminals and governments may put devices on
the market having
All Your Baseband Are Belong To Us!
http://www.youtube.com/embed/fQqv0v14KKY
As Magic Banana said, Stallman's concern is more to do with the network
structure than the freedom of the device itself- and indeed, a fully free
phone is (theoretically) possible.
In regards to OsmocomBB, I'm honestly not sure how complete or active it is
either. I suspect it is in a
I hadn't heard of OsmocomBB. I was under the impression that no one has
liberated a modem. It's hard to tell from their website how complete or
active the project is. Is a free/libre mobile phone in fact feasible? RMS
seems to think not.
It doesn't take the Chinese government to do that- the NSA can turn most cell
phones into such surveillance devices (and probably botnets if they wanted
to) pretty easily already. The Chinese government, I suspect, wouldn't even
need to bother with loading the malware remotely.
Apart from
In a broadcast a person spoke about the possibility, you buy a device and it
will have built in surveillance software. A person could buy several hundred
devices. Put surveillance or botnet software on them. Then sell them
lowpriced. He spoke about governments doing it. A chinese government
