An Israeli tech firm has quietly embedded spyware into Samsung smartphones - and it poses a serious surveillance threat

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Mobile telephony support just comes as a module, so that’s actually the easy part.

    The harder parts are to make the whole thing consume a low enough amount of power that you can keep it running from a non-monster-sized battery, and I suspect that an RPi 5 board isn’t very good for that (hobbyist development boards tend to not have been designed to avoid wasting power, even when the underlying microcontroller/processors is actually decent at it), and integrating an OS with support for a touch interface, especially if you want to avoid Android.

    I mean, it’s not too hard to make a brick sized dumb phone and even have it be a mobile phone powered by AA batteries, but if you want a mobile smartphone, it gets more complex.

    Unless you have the time and skills to take up the challenge you would probably be better of getting something like a Volla phone with Ubuntu Touch or a Pine phone.