fullofstack
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Comment · 2 years ago
Is GPS spoofing an option, underground? Would instantly work on all phones.
Comment · 2 years ago
Ross Ulbricht did something very similar. Online profit from drug sales.
Comment · 3 years ago
Wellbutrin is not an SSRI, but a NDRI (norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitor). Some people respond better to the latter.
Comment · 7 years ago
The mast that your phone communicates with doesn't always have lots of fiber bandwidth. Sometimes it's only connected to other masts using microwave links (which could be outdated).
Comment · 7 years ago
5G will increase capacity, especially in urban areas, enabling cheaper unlimited plans.
Comment · 10 years ago
https://web.whatsapp.com/ only allows login through a cert (via a QR-code). Some banks also use this. A smartphone is used a a cert vault. Not a client cert in the traditional sense, though it's basically the same thing.
Comment · 10 years ago
Closing your tabs and using the browser's history achieves the same thing.
Comment · 11 years ago
What it reminds me of, is Google Project Tango, which also has the NASA's JPL listed as a partner[1]. Also worth mentioning, is Johnny Lee, who worked for Microsoft Kinect, and is now working at Google for project Tango.
Comment · 12 years ago
from http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/209h4d/samsung_galax... :
This is not a backdoor. It's a feature, and a reasonably common one for Qualcomm based devices.
It's an interface to allow the modem access to a persistent data store (ie. eMMC modem partitions) even though only the application processor may access the MMC controller.
Have a look at the rmt_storage client documentation found in a Qualcomm kernel tree. It used to be pretty common to ship a rmt_storage daemon to do the very same thing Samsung is being accused of here (hint: Nexus 5 still uses it), I don't know about other recent devices, but I'd imagine they'd employ something similar.
Also, there are many more ways for the baseband to compromise the application processor, without an explicit interface.