Not only is the NSA keeping track of your data (GPS, phone calls, etc), but its surprisingly easy for anyone to get into your cell phone. Neat! And scary, I guess. ...Every baseband processor inherently trusts whatever data it receives from a base station (e.g. in a cell tower). 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... Put a compromised base station in a crowded area - or even a financial district or some other sensitive area - and you can remotely turn on microphones, cameras, place rootkits, place calls/send SMS messages to expensive numbers, and so on. Yes, you can even brick phones permanently.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:59:35 +0000
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