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author | Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@no-log.org> | 2016-03-28 20:50:23 +0200 |
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committer | Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr> | 2017-06-11 15:20:54 +0300 |
commit | 0107992eb314339a084f30fc03b7544852ec4a1e (patch) | |
tree | 6b4279bf42833669f135f813b4fccf718e27b794 | |
parent | d489a7736a46df114a353137517673f71556c92c (diff) | |
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freedom-privacy-security-issues: Improve the modem definition
I don't know any GSM baseband that can run without their own memory.
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@no-log.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr>
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diff --git a/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php b/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php index 5c05d62..0965c3f 100644 --- a/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php +++ b/freedom-privacy-security-issues.php @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ <a href="images/freedom-privacy-security-issues/hardware.png" data-lightbox="overview" data-title="Hardware-side overview"><img src="images/freedom-privacy-security-issues/hardware.png" alt="Hardware-side overview" style="width: 250px; float: left;"/></a> On the hardware side, mobile devices are built with a system on a chip (SoC) that includes a processor (CPU) and various other fundamental components, around which are found various integrated circuits, memory (RAM), storage, user input/output (I/O), etc. When the device is telephony-enabled, it also features a modem, which is the component in charge of dealing with the mobile telephony network. - Nowadays, it is usually a powerful processor, sometimes with its own memory and storage. + This component embeds a powerful processor that runs an operating system, along with dedicated volatile memory. Its storage can be dedicated or shared with the main processor. </p> <p> Regarding the software side of things on mobile devices, the main CPU (inside the SoC) starts by executing initial boot code, often known as the bootrom. |