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diff --git a/2010/osmocombb-ols2010/abstract.txt b/2010/osmocombb-ols2010/abstract.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b84c3b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/2010/osmocombb-ols2010/abstract.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +For more than 19 years, every GSM mobile phone is running a proprietary +protocol stack on a proprietary operating system on top of equally +proprietary hardware. Billions of phones have been shipped worldwide, +running as a black box controlled by the phone maker and/or operator - +outside the control of the user + +Most of those devices have no user-upgradable firmware for the baseband +processor, and yet those billions of GSM phones are all connected to a public +network. Their software is complex compiled C code on a CPU without any +form of memory protection. + +Mobile phones have all sort of features that the user would never want. Why +would he want his phone to reveal its GPS position to the operator? Why +would he allow the operator to hide from him, if calls are not encrypted? + +The only solution is a Free Software / Open Source GSM baseband stack. + +OsmocomBB has set out to create this protocol stack. |