I lowkey expect every modern device to be compromised (unless you’re running custom roms). Whether it’s Pegasus or something else. Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.
This doesn’t make sense to me.
Why do they even need it to be that way?
Compartmentalisations was one of the basic points in system design methodology that I thought (because I read it somewhere) smartphones would also be built upon. So why compromise the whole thing to a supply chain attack?
I lowkey expect every modern device to be compromised (unless you’re running custom roms). Whether it’s Pegasus or something else. Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.
Just make sure your pagers are not backdoored with Semtex either.
Even if you can’t, minimizing smartphone use, uptime and carrying mitigates some of the risk
If you think every phone has some sort of IME, installing a custom ROM means nothing.
A phone’s baseband (modem) runs its own proprietary firmware with full RAM access.
This doesn’t make sense to me.
Why do they even need it to be that way?
Compartmentalisations was one of the basic points in system design methodology that I thought (because I read it somewhere) smartphones would also be built upon. So why compromise the whole thing to a supply chain attack?
so that they can surveil you
In exchange for giant purchase orders from the government. Qualcomm etc are simply corrupt.
It’s by design.