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by jentist_retol 2194 days ago
>So what's the point of running it on hardware designed to address the issue of running FOSS alongside a blackbox baseband?

The exercise of maintaining an open baseline is valuable. Also, having a development platform is valuable.

Some modern phones keep the blackbox baseband isolated on a non DMA bus, such as usb. In those cases, you simply don't t rust the baseband as anything but a packet forwarder, and enforce full TLS/VPN at a low level in the operation system.

It is limited, though. No argument there.