Vulnerabilities in chips in 37% of smartphones
There are so many attack vectors now on phones ranging from the SIM Card (which has an OS as well) to all the baseband chips to the actual OS and the different app privileges (like the old SMS listening port).<p>What's interesting to me about the Taiwanese tech industry is their nimbleness and how MediaTek pivoted from a primarily DVD chip maker to dumb phone chip provider running on Pluto OS to now a smartphone chipmaker. Surprised the folks at Intel never tried to acquire them.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek</a>