It runs Android, so it’s just as hackable and vulnerable to authoritarian systems as any other smart phone.
Now if it was a true feature phone… good luck sideloading spyware. You’d have to disassemble the phone and mount the chips in an EEPROM reader to get anywhere, and that’s not an effective remote exploit.
Now if it was a true feature phone… good luck sideloading spyware. You’d have to disassemble the phone and mount the chips in an EEPROM reader to get anywhere, and that’s not an effective remote exploit.
that’s dumb. it’s very likely just as vulnerable as androids. the modem’s software is full of decades legacy cruft and many security holes, and likely not properly separated from the mic, the ram or the storage
No, it doesn’t run Android. Did you not read the introduction of the article?
I have a MRE Nokia phone, that can run a kind of ELF apps. There is no permission system so even worse than Android. At least apps can’t run in the background so they can only exfiltrate SMSs and unconsensual photos when open, and the latter takes ages over EDGE…
It runs Android, so it’s just as hackable and vulnerable to authoritarian systems as any other smart phone.
Now if it was a true feature phone… good luck sideloading spyware. You’d have to disassemble the phone and mount the chips in an EEPROM reader to get anywhere, and that’s not an effective remote exploit.
that’s dumb. it’s very likely just as vulnerable as androids. the modem’s software is full of decades legacy cruft and many security holes, and likely not properly separated from the mic, the ram or the storage
It’s cute you think they need to hack the OS get access to your phone.
No, it doesn’t run Android. Did you not read the introduction of the article?
I have a MRE Nokia phone, that can run a kind of ELF apps. There is no permission system so even worse than Android. At least apps can’t run in the background so they can only exfiltrate SMSs and unconsensual photos when open, and the latter takes ages over EDGE…