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comment by eataudio
eataudio  ·  4147 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hacked Motorola phones can block other people's phone calls.

Looks like it's a brand new exploit.

There's some excellent discussion over at Hacker News.





speeding_snail  ·  4147 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Or to quote one of the commenters there:

    The more cynical outlook would be that the baseband firmware has been reverse engineered and broken long ago, the fruits of this effort kept from being aired due to the high price they could command on the black market

It seems that this could become quite a problem. I'm curious how the infrastructure providers will deal with this.