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by mapkkk 426 days ago
I've been fantasizing about building an iPXE netbooting phone for a while now, glad to see that I'm not the only one. Mine was sparked by seeing some journalists in my country getting arrested recently.

I think it should be doable _technically_, but I think getting the mobile radios working before the OS boots would be challenging.
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LinuxBender 425 days ago
If the phone can boot off a thumb-drive then people could have a keychain thumb-drive that serves the sole purpose of a minimal OS that can iPXE, boot the real OS and pull down the users contacts, apps, etc... maybe?
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gf000 425 days ago
Without a verified boot chain, security would be greatly compromised.

Like I could just grab your thumb drive, and put a new system on there that looks the same, and steals your password.

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