Hack-ability of consumer electronics - the "techie" stuff
No matter how "open source" you go - the final frontier has always been the "invisible os" or the processor which you dont and cant control
In laptops/computers - it is the bios
In Phones - it is the baseband - the chip which ideally should be just doing the rf-digital-analog modem thing
But it does way, way more
the basic services - sms etc - will always have flaws - the "rf payload" is decoded, executed at these "invisible processors" running a closed source os
There are some partially known ways to interact - some of them are documented, most of them are not. One of the known ways to "hack a baseband" is to know the layers -
qmi
ril
baseband
uknown or reverse engineer-able.
Get a cert, hack a room would only get you this far - it is capitalism using your "hacks" to hack you - a new brick - a new kind of huuumaaan.
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After Thoughts
Thoth:#1
glue-ing batteries to phones - apart from making them "thin" to hold, they also seem to ensure "uninterrupted" power to this baseband /os thingy...
firmware updates and alll...delta... ppl dont patch, vendors have delays or incentives to roll out "updates"...
no matter how "techie" one may go - this is a loop... a pattern which keeps the most basic thing out of focus
who made these devices ugly and so indiscriminate? are these really "smart" ppl??