If used on a motorcycle, it can mean the rider can lose control, causing a crash, fatality, and lawsuits.
What is the alternative for safely stopping a speeding motorcycle?
5000 Gallons of Jello. Orange-flavored of course.
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Likely the smartphone modem will also have a GSM chipset (eg. Qualcomm) as well; this is mainly separate from the baseband processor and have limited contact with it (eg. maybe need some AT commands to control the GSM modes).
In general, the firmware running on a baseband processor is very hard to change. Changes to that processor must be re-vetted through several approval processes (PTCRB and usually one or more carrier, eg. AT&T) and consume time and money. It is for this reason that you cannot program your own code into this processor (I'm guessing scripts don't count as a program as they are sandboxed within an internal VM-like system).
From the developer's standpoint it's extortion.io.
- Eddy
- Eddy
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn