<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-13 4:56 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lkcl@lkcl.net" target="_blank">lkcl@lkcl.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">---<br>
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Wolfgang Romey <<a href="mailto:hier@wolfgangromey.de">hier@wolfgangromey.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> I think my FairPhone 2, which I own for a month, is some kind of a modular<br>
> smartphone.<br>
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</span> it's not: they lied.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If they're intentions were honest it's not a lie. It's just being naive. </div><div><br></div><div>But all most parts are, user, replaceable. Which indeed does not make it modular, but serviceable.</div><div><br></div><div>If there is a true lie, I'd like to hear about it.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> I use it with the FairPhone Open Os, which is Google free. Of<br>
> course I could root it without problems. I know (luke) that it is not real<br>
> free hardware and comes with blobs.<br>
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</span> you mean, "it comes with software from one of THE most unethical<br>
companies in the world that is undergoing court cases for<br>
anti-competitive practices</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's true for most companies. BTW which company are we talking about.<br></div><div>Farphone1: Mediatek SoC</div><div>Faiphone2: Quallcomm snapdragon SoC</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">, where we KNOW that they just roll over and<br>
give direct access, through their OS, *AT RUNTIME*, to allow arbitrary<br>
code-execution OVER THE AIR without your knowledge, EVEN IF THE DEVICE<br>
IS POWERED DOWN?"<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which is true for every GSM modem and SIM card, mandated by the GSM network operators and probably, directly or indirectly, some government agency's.</div><div><br></div><div>The biggest issue is that they've tied the modem and SIM directly to the rest of the system. It's a cheap decision. Which most manufactures have done unfortunately. [1]</div><div><br></div><div>[1]<a href="http://neo900.org/news/about-the-asn1-vulnerability">http://neo900.org/news/about-the-asn1-vulnerability</a></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>