How to repurpose your old phone's GPS modem into a web server
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A developer discovered that the PinePhone's GPS modem runs its own Linux operating system accessible through Android Debug Bridge commands, allowing root shell access. They successfully installed a web server directly on the modem hardware, which has around 48MB of memory and storage, achieving speeds of about 10Mb/s. This raises security concerns since malware could potentially use this method to gain persistent access that survives phone OS reinstalls.
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