Quoting Alessandro Selli (alessandrose...@linux.com): > Good news indeed! The second one this week, after this worthy attempt > by puri.sm to finally produce a smartphone designed to be 100% > evil-software free and GNU/Linux compatible (scheduled for release in > 2019, though): > > https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
Having the i.MX6 ori.MX8 CPU 'separate' from the baseband controller (a term on which they have not yet elaborated), but the latter remains deeply problematic, being a proprietary black box with proprietary, opaque firmware. (See: http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone) The WiFi and Bluetooth chips and firmware are apparently also black boxes. One notices, also that they say there aren't yet detailed specifications for the simple reason that the choices of hardware components are still up in the air. The secret-sauce baseband controllers are a tough problem, and will continue to cripple any real chance at smartphone security until there's a credible open-design alternative. But fully isolating the main board and CPU from the baseband modem subassembly -- if that's actually what Puri.sm are going to do -- is at least half a loaf. More at: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-hardening-android-security-and-privacy https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-improbable-hardening-android-security-and-privacy (If you look closely, you'll see those are two slightly different URLs.) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
