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by westmeal 2454 days ago
The new Android devices also have hardened kernels but it doesn't really matter phones are insecure as fuck in other ways.
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Indeed. Who the hell thought it was a great idea for the modem baseband device to have unlimited direct memory access to the host processor memory space? I mean, especially when the baseband firmware can usually be remotely updated by the network with zero user interaction?!
> have unlimited direct memory access to the host processor memory space

Can you give some reference for that claim?

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot12/woot12...

If you want more, literally google “baseband attack host processor memory” or “baseband exploits DMA” or “baseband exploits memory”.

Is this all Android? Or just Blackberry?