[LINK] RTOS: The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone

Kim Holburn kim at holburn.net
Thu Nov 14 09:18:23 AEDT 2013


http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone

> Nothing is checked, everything is automatically trusted. Lastly, the baseband processor is usually the master processor, whereas the application processor (which runs the mobile operating system) is the slave.
> 
> So, we have a complete operating system, running on an ARM processor, without any exploit mitigation (or only very little of it), which automatically trusts every instruction, piece of code, or data it receives from the base station you're connected to. What could possibly go wrong?


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