Open phones for privacy/anonymity applications, Guardian

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:59:45AM +0100, rysiek wrote:

> Also, I'd *love* a phone with a FLOSS GSM firmware, *especially* if it makes 
> it illegal in USA. Wonder if there's a way of making that happen.

IIRC the only way to run a FLOSS GSM stack is by way of SDR (not exactly
pocket-sized), unless you can reverse-engineer the baseband firmware blob.

The most interesting news in SDR lately has been 
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform