[Arm-netbook] Removing wifi

[Tom Cubie]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:41 AM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:05 AM,  <freebirds at hushmail.com> wrote:
>> A member speculated that I need to remove wifi because I work for the
>> government. I just posted what I do need. I should explain that I am a
>> domestic violence victim. My abuser hired investigators. The investigators
>> hired hackers. My abuser's hackers broke into my storage unit, car and room
>> where I had my netbooks.
>> [...]
>
>  i believe it's appropriate to quote ian bank's book "excession",
> specifically the reaction of the pursuing Minds tasked to track one
> particular Mind (AI space craft) and their complete utter failure to
> do that as, after 20 years of an otherwise sedate and slow-paced
> lifestyle it accelerates in hyperspace, in a matter of a few minutes,
> to 240x the speed of light.  however, under the circumstances it's not
> appropriate to actually repeat the phrase used.
>
>  well - that would explain the use of the anonymising mail service.
>
>  you're aware that mobile phones are also vulnerable to remote
> hacking?  not the smartphone's processor, but the *actual GSM or 3G*
> processor.  i learned recently that a requirement of all mobile phones
> is to allow arbitrary remote code to be downloaded over-the-air to the
> Radio ROM's processor.  in this way the mobile phone can be turned
> into a remote monitoring system, providing remote access to whatever
> features the phone has.  so it's also quite likely that the phone,
> even when it *appears* to be switched off, could provide access to
> audio data as well as positional data (*1)
>
>  but you probably knew that already.
>
>  henrik, just to confirm with you: it is now possible to boot up an
> A10 to a useful state, entirely from code where we now have the source
> code for everything that's involved in the boot process, right? (*2)
i think the answer is yes.
>
>  l.
>
> (*1) this probably also applies to those 3G modems. no... it
> definitely applies to those 3G modems as well.
> (*2) even if some of that source code is .asm assembler?
>
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