On Tue 10 December 2013 14:42:56 Christoph Bänsch wrote: > I think that fact isn't new. The BIOS on a normal PC is a 'Second OS' too. > There is one big difference: the BIOS is safer than the firmware of an GSM > modem.
The one big difference is: BIOS runs on main CPU, modem is a peripheral and for all "free phones" doesn't even share RAM with CPU. We have a third OS on lis302, a 4th on camera chip, a 5th inside PMU, on PC we have one in HDD and one in optical drive. We have one even in SD-card and so on and on /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some supplementary links:) http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii/ (German)
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