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Thank you, I see this viewpoint better now. Not certain I'd make the headline different knowing this, but this is good to keep in mind.

When you read "Linux malware", do you interpret it as "malware baked into Linux"?

I hate having to install VM-specific guest utils all the time when I just want to paste some text into the VM. Here's a script that emulates keyboard input and just works. ASCII-only, sadly.

Also, in VirtualBox, when you turn host-guest clipboard sync on in the VM settings (or set it to "Bidirectional"), it automatically syncs host clipboard contents to the VM clipboard, even if you never actually paste the clipboard contents into that VM. If you're running untrusted software in a VM and have guest utils installed, this might be a data leak vector you're not even aware of. So, install this script and only use guest-host clipboard sync if you really need it.

That's why I won't be doing it myself - I'm just going to provide the platform, there are already people working on an open-source baseband, and they're much smarter than me =)

Each time ZeroPhone comes up on HackerNews, I learn something new that helps me go on =) Thank you, will be researching it when I'll be working "alternatives to Pi" topic =)

Oh, I do agree. The problem is - who's going to write it? I'm an one-man army so far, this is going to change once people get their hardware from the first batch I'm finishing now, but for now the project still needs contributors.

Answering to your "GSM not open" comment - yes, the GSM baseband itself is not open-source, and I won't be able to change that alone - I have neither skills nor time. My plan is to make all the other parts of the phone open-source, so that when an open-source baseband appears, there's a platform to attach it to.

The video is not yet ready (I'm still filming it) - but I'll make sure to post it here =)

The baseband OS is separate from the Linux running on the Raspberry Pi, the modem can be put in hardware RESET state - so, there's unlikely to be a way to execute malicious code on the Linux side by using a modem exploit, if that's what you're interested in =) And yes, the OS has access to GPIOs that control the GSM modem, so that's entirely possible.

Hey, other programmers manage to write software that isn't riddled with bugs, I hope to be able to keep up with them =)