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asked 2015-07-02 23:17:03 +0200

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Guineverre
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Hello, Mobile communication manipulation is today like a standard. The old nokia cell-phone it was easy to remove the battery. Why the new Tablet and Phones don't offer the easy battery replacement any more? The camera function can be hacked, why is there no pyhsical shutter? The mic can be hacked, why there is no galvanic switch?

Or for simplifaction a sliding shutter: 1 sliding step - cam-shutter on 2 sliding step - mic off - via an galvanic siwtch 3 sliding step - battery "unplugged" - via an galvanic siwtch

Additionally there should be a powered backplane with an FPGA chip for security programming and an SDK to do so.

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answered 2015-07-02 23:44:04 +0200

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You are missing the one point that is actually valid - there is no switch for the modem, all the other hardware does not exactly run on its own and FPGA TOH is something you can build on your own, SDK for that is the SDK for the FPGA you are using... the system on the other end is gnu/linux...

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Yeah, open baseband so we can finaly get rid of silent sms, and hack some of the protocolls. Providers will not like that hardware on their networks. Neither will "security agencies"

MoritzJT ( 2015-07-03 01:51:50 +0200 )edit

Pretty bad idea to have modem firmware customizable by users... you will have that modem blocked from providers in no time - a killswitch would be nice. Silent SMS is part of the standard btw.

chemist ( 2015-07-03 14:44:05 +0200 )edit

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