[HN Gopher] Check Point discover vulnerabilities in chips embedd...
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       Check Point discover vulnerabilities in chips embedded in 37% of
       smartphones
        
       Author : T-A
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2021-11-25 18:06 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.checkpoint.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.checkpoint.com)
        
       | Scoundreller wrote:
       | I guess they didn't look hard enough at the other 63%
        
       | kumarski wrote:
       | The time for open source chips is now.
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       | Efabless.com
        
       | 1cvmask wrote:
       | 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).
       | 
       | 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.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaTek
        
         | danachow wrote:
         | There are quite a few "Mediateks" - Intel never had any
         | interest in them - and they willingly sold off just about every
         | embedded asset they had. Maybe look into the history of
         | StrongARM and xscale to start.
        
         | melony wrote:
         | They are good and reliable, but they are not cutting age. The
         | Toyota to M1's Ferrari. There is no point for Intel to acquire
         | them when right now what Intel needs above all is tech and
         | manufacturing advancements.
        
           | mschuster91 wrote:
           | > what Intel needs above all is tech and manufacturing
           | advancements.
           | 
           | Intel needs a reliable door into the phone industry.
           | Currently they don't have _anything_ to offer and people will
           | think twice before choosing Intel chipsets if it 's not sure
           | Intel will even stay in the market. Acquiring MediaTek would
           | bypass that.
        
         | kumarski wrote:
         | efani.com
        
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