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		wthnrtghwr on Feb 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Code execution as root via AT commands on the Quec... Quectel, not Qualcomm. Of course Pine has to treat it as unfixable -- the modem is already an untrusted component out of the box, and the FCC (and peers) would never allow Pine to ship their own modem firmware.

tinus_hn on Feb 11, 2022 [–]

Why not? Apple ships their own modem (‘baseband’) firmware.

xnzakg on Feb 11, 2022 | [–]

The cost of re-certification of the modem with a new firmware is nothing for Apple, but way too much for a smaller company like Pine64.

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