Is this not true? Why the downvoters?
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bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Who cares if you can flash the firmware (which will remove any thing that they might be able to do)
mortalic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Phones’ modems have their own firmware that gets flashed by the cell provider, so I think spies would target that.
mortalic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ahh interesting, and that’s a valid point. I’d love to read up more on that.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
“remove any thing that they might be able to do” is a hilariously broad brush to apply to three letter agencies in this day and age that were doing things like this 50 years ago.
I’m not saying it’s realistic that OP is being targeted for such surveillance. But if they are, good fucking luck! Flashing your firmware ain’t going to do shit when they’ve just gone ahead and replaced the chips on your board with their own that act exactly like a normal chip but have extra code that doesn’t get flashed when they don’t want it to.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well it is true hardware implants and hardware replacements can’t be fixed by flashing but they are detectable and they can only deploy so many of those before everything is a major news story and if you feel that the odds are that high, making one’s own hardware is an option but generally not a good one.