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> Do you know in which part of the phones this is supposed to be in?

The baseband chip.. it runs its own RTOS (separate from Android/ios/etc): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor

Rather than explaining, I think this link is a pretty good example: a chip from qualcomm that was sold at least through 2012:

http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...

It was demonstrated at BlackHat in 2011 on an iPhone 4 and HTC Dream (android):

https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-11/bh-dc-11-briefings.ht...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2625180/smartphones/coming-...

Edit: Slides from a talk at DeepSec:

http://2010.hack.lu/archive/2010/Weinmann-All-Your-Baseband-...

Edit: video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQqv0v14KKY

edit: I think this is the paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot12/woot12...

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Thanks for posting that.

I quite commonly experience the phenomenon that when others don't agree with me, they make up reasons that I must be wrong, completely out of the blue.

For example, I'm working on a Conway's Game of Life implementation for iOS. It's taking a long time, so some joker published a web page that lists all the other members of our site, who have already shipped Conway's Life implementations.

So I pointed out that I shipped my own Life game for the Classic Mac OS in 1997, and that it was particularly fast because it set the bit-depth of the screen to 1 (black and white, no color, no greyscale), then drew directly into the video card memory. My old website where I published its source has been available in the wayback machine this whole time.

The response? Two other people pointed out that they knew how to draw directly to the screen decades ago.

No one is willing to acknowledge that I shipped my own Life implementation fourteen years ago, long before that site even existed.

Not sure why the downvotes, its common human behaviour. Its even discussed at length in Carnegie's htwfaip.

As I said I am mentally ill. If I tell my own mother something she disagrees with or does not understand, she regards it as a symptom of my mental illness.

For example I told her that I am a webmaster, and that it costs me money to register my domains and host my sites.

She regards such statements as evidence that I have not been taking my medicine, and will, from time to time, call the police to get me involuntarily held in a psychiatric hospital, whose staff will agree that I must be delusional, because I claim to be a webmaster.

wait, wait ... wasn't there some michael crawford personality on kuro5hin years and years ago ? I never really understood what was going on there, but ... is this related in some way ?

Yes, I've been an active kuro5hin member since 2002.

Oddly, I am considered not notable enough for wikipedia, because someone made the argument that I am only known at k5, despite being widely published, having led the development of some protocols, invented things, written a whole bunch of highly regarded software products.

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