Cell-site simulators (CSS)—also known as IMSI Catchers and Stingrays—are a tool that law enforcement and governments use to track the location of phones, intercept or disrupt communications, spy on foreign governments, or even install malware. Cell-site simulators are also used by criminals to send...
  • narc0tic_birdEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not saying you’re wrong, but I’d love to read the sources to your claims.

    • elderflower@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Example: https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation

      Yes, the baseband is isolated on all of the officially supported devices. Memory access is partitioned by the IOMMU and limited to internal memory and memory shared by the driver implementations…Earlier generation devices we used to support prior to Pixels had Wi-Fi + Bluetooth implemented on a separate SoC. This was not properly contained by the stock OS and we put substantial work into addressing that problem.

      Baseband modems were not isolated from kernel memory in stock Android, GrapheneOS had to do it themselves using the IOMMU. We do not know for sure due to the proprietary/closed-source nature of baseband modem drivers, but we have no reason to assume any OEM (Samsung, Xiaomi etc) implemented proper isolation of baseband modem and system memory.

      • narc0tic_birdEnglish
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        1 year ago

        That’d be a huge oversight on their part. Thanks for the clarification.