Comment by ignoramous

I wish the smartphone side of things gets more attention and someone engineers their way to an open source baseband firmware ala OpenWrt [0]. Not sure why after the breakthrough for GSM/2G with OsocomBB [1], no viable libre alternative LTE or 4G has emerged [2].

The smartphone is an always-on, always-connected computer with 2B or more (30% of world's population) unsuspecting (to almost a point of being gullible) BSD/Linux users who are exposed and don't even know it, to an unprecedented degree, to adversaries with deep pockets (ad-networks [3], nation-states [4], carriers [5]) who don't need a second invitation. Most of the privacy and security battles, I feel, will be won and lost with smartphones. That's discounting IoT security altogether which is a scary proposition in itself for rather silly reasons [6][7].

RMS has had the right idea all along?

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11266796