<story><title>The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (2013)</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Matt3o12_</author><text>Is there any working being done to modernize those protocols? I&amp;#x27;m sure Apple can demand that by a given timeframe, a new standard has to be supported or else new iphone won&amp;#x27;t work on the carrier&amp;#x27;s network (and which carrier would not want iphones to work on their network?). It&amp;#x27;s not like Apple is afraid of such things. I&amp;#x27;m sure if apple implemented them, google&amp;#x2F;samsung would follow within 1 or 2 years.&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, is there a refactor&amp;#x2F;rewrite of that &amp;#x27;90 code bash that is full of bugs and unused functions? And if so, do any phone manufactures use that improve &amp;quot;firmware&amp;quot;?</text></comment>
<story><title>The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (2013)</title><url>http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in_every_mobile_phone</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s very important to understand this risk, but also to keep it in perspective.&lt;p&gt;Both the two major phone vendors --- Google and Apple --- have teams of people who are acutely aware of the baseband thread, many of whom are equally as talented as RPW.&lt;p&gt;Further, though the article seems carefully written enough to avoid the misconception, the basebands on modern phones don&amp;#x27;t get direct access to AP memory, but are instead connected over a high-speed serial connection with a limited command set.</text></comment>