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Agreed, when they can own the baseband, you're kinda screwed.

edit: my knowledge is clearly out of date.



Since the mid-2010s Apple has put every baseband / WiFi / Bluetooth radio either on USB or PCIe with an IOMMU that restricts access to only the pages required for networking and packet management.

I can't speak to when Android started doing this, but I know the common chipsets (Qualcomm, Exynos, Mediatek) also do this.




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