I’m not sure if this is the right community for this sort of post. I couldn’t think of any other community to post it in. If there does exist a more appropriate place to post it, then please let me know.
I’m not sure if this is the right community for this sort of post. I couldn’t think of any other community to post it in. If there does exist a more appropriate place to post it, then please let me know.
I believe yes, but since chip manufacturers are free to use ARM designs to design their chips, the implementations of such a backdoor may differ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor
The baseband processor is for devices with cell connections. Something like a Raspberry Pi does not have one.
Apologies, I was thinking of mobile phones as I wrote this comment. You are correct, however I do not trust Broadcom to not bundle spyware with their devices if they can help it
Yes, there are definitely better SBC’s that don’t use Broadcom chips. Some of the Allwinner boards will boot without any blobs as long as you don’t need the GPU.
Could you point me towards them?
The Pine A64, Rock64 & RockPro64 are blob free. The Orange Pi Zero is blob free except for the WiFi.
Thanks