[chli]

e.g. The camera firmware blob could be tagging all your pictures with some kind of hidden watermark. Who knows ?

EDIT: Just to clarify, firmware blobs are not executed "on their own", they are normally executed on a micro-controller that is embedded in the baseband / power management / gpu / any other chip.

[comzeradd]

That was exactly my point.

[icebraining]

That my have been what you meant, but it wasn't what you wrote in the blog post. And besides, it's irrelevant if it runs "on its own" or not; in fact, technically, only the bootloader runs on its own, everything else has to be loaded by some piece of software, including the OS itself.