2017-01-13 4:56 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>:

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Wolfgang Romey <hier@wolfgangromey.de> wrote:
> I think my FairPhone 2, which I own for a month, is some kind of a modular
> smartphone.

it's not: they lied.

If they're intentions were honest it's not a lie. It's just being naive.

But all most parts are, user, replaceable. Which indeed does not make it modular, but serviceable.

If there is a true lie, I'd like to hear about it.

> I use it with the FairPhone Open Os, which is Google free. Of
> course I could root it without problems. I know (luke) that it is not real
> free hardware and comes with blobs.

you mean, "it comes with software from one of THE most unethical
companies in the world that is undergoing court cases for
anti-competitive practices

That's true for most companies. BTW which company are we talking about.

Farphone1: Mediatek SoC

Faiphone2: Quallcomm snapdragon SoC

, where we KNOW that they just roll over and
give direct access, through their OS, *AT RUNTIME*, to allow arbitrary
code-execution OVER THE AIR without your knowledge, EVEN IF THE DEVICE
IS POWERED DOWN?"

Which is true for every GSM modem and SIM card, mandated by the GSM network operators and probably, directly or indirectly, some government agency's.

The biggest issue is that they've tied the modem and SIM directly to the rest of the system. It's a cheap decision. Which most manufactures have done unfortunately. [1]

[1]http://neo900.org/news/about-the-asn1-vulnerability