Kyrgizion comments on A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 29 points 9 months ago

Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether

Even if you can't, minimizing smartphone use, uptime and carrying mitigates some of the risk

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 9 months ago

Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.

Just make sure your pagers are not backdoored with Semtex either.

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[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

If you think every phone has some sort of IME, installing a custom ROM means nothing.

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[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

A phone's baseband (modem) runs its own proprietary firmware with full RAM access.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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?

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