| Oksana | DocScrutinizer05: If the cellular modem is a USB add-on to user's device, then surely, it can neither compromise whole device nor see user's all actions? At most, know user's location, and which servers user is exchanging data with, and when; but not contents of data itself (if it's encrypted with, say, SSL), and not user's off-line activities? | 02:19 |
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| Oksana | Just, most of modern phones make cellular modem heavily integrated, instead of USB-attached. | 02:20 |
| atk | it would be nice to launch an investigation into this | 09:40 |
| atk | at least quallcomm's SOCs integrate it | 09:41 |
| atk | and share memory with the modem | 09:41 |
| atk | at least we can extrapolate that because they share memory with the WLAN module | 09:41 |
| atk | which is just as stupid | 09:41 |
| atk | as a series of recent CVEs prove | 09:41 |
| atk | there must be at least some mainstream android phones which don't integrate it | 09:41 |
| atk | and I mean recent phones which can run a web browser at a decent pace | 09:42 |
| brolin_empey | atk: Atom-based smartphones, such as the Asus ZenFone 2 from 2015? | 09:43 |
| atk | ooh | 09:43 |
| atk | but wait | 09:52 |
| atk | if it's x86 based, aren't there going to be compatibility issues with applications which compile some native stuff? | 09:52 |
| brolin_empey | atk: I think that is only a problem if an application uses native code but only includes native code for ARM, not for x86. Off hand, the only example of such an application I can name off hand is an unofficial port of Doom 3 to Android that uses NEON native code but did not include native code for x86. I used Android 4.2 for x86 on a Geeksphone Revolution from when the Revolution was released early in 2014, forgot which month, until 2015 May or June and | 10:07 |
| brolin_empey | do not remember finding anything else I wanted to use that did not work on Android on x86. | 10:07 |
| Joerg-Neo900 | ssl going to expire in 8 days | 16:17 |
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