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The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
I’ve always known this, and I’m sure most of you do too, but we never really talk about it. Every smartphone or other device with mobile communications capability (e.g. 3G or LTE) actually runs not one, but two operating systems. Aside from the operating system that we as end-users see (Android, iOS, PalmOS), it also runs a small operating system that manages everything related to radio
http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone
#surveillance #mobile #operating-systems #android #ios #palmos #3g #gsm #lte #technologies #radio #smartphones #device #communications #privacy #freedom
Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the ACLU’s Speech Privacy and Technology Project, said he was excited to see a company like #Silent-Circle visibly competing on #privacy and security but that he was waiting for it to go #open-source and be audited by independent #security experts before he would feel comfortable using it for sensitive #communications. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/10/silent_circle_mike_janke_s_iphone_app_makes_encryption_easy_governments.single.html via @{Dr. Roy Schestowitz ; schestowitz@joindiaspora.com}
