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You don’t need any input from the user/target. Once the malicious code reaches the device the exploit works its magic.

An open source cellular modem firmware is long overdue, but there's no government on Earth that would be keen on allowing it to happen, the best we have is 2G/3G stuff that has been illegally leaked and reverse engineered.

A lot of dragons lurking in the dark there.

The network side is already covered by OpenBTS and srsRAN - I believe the latter is already including 5G.

Wonder what's blocking the client side. Power efficiency? No target market since cheap LTE sticks can be had for under 20€ apiece?

The modem firmwares might be old and hairy, but is there any evidence that they have been used to actually compromise phones? All of the investigations that I can recall reading have been exploits in the phone OS application code.

https://linuxsmartphones.com/hackers-develop-open-source-fir...

Governments want them, companies that use them and package to sell to governments will pay you the millions.

Zerodium is a good starting point, you can find individual grey market brokers too, you probably already follow one of them on Twitter :I