Regarding the Pixel baseband vulnerability: Yes it is bad, but nowhere near as bad as you and many others seem to think. The vulnerability only allows control over the modem, not the whole device. Your kernel and userspace are safe through various protections including most notably IOMMU isolation.

Furthermore, I would expect that enabling Airplane Mode and using your phone only over WiFi (without WiFi calling of course) would mitigate the vulnerability entirely until it is patched. I don't really agree with advice that people should disable VoLTE (even if they could), because previous standards are grossly insecure in their own right — namely, while VoLTE communications are encrypted between your phone and carrier, 2G and 3G voice can be trivially monitored by anyone in proximity. This is part of why GrapheneOS encourages using LTE-only mode.

Here is Daniel Micay himself commenting on this vulnerability: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/3942-baseband-vulnerabilities/7

In reply to @jfixesmacs:matrix.org
Hi Louis, I have made a couple messages here about my work in Vermont for right to repair. I had a bill drafted a year ago and some progress has been made. I am a 13 year old kid from Vermont who just likes to fix shit. This tuesday, I am going to testify in front of the committee for the consumer right to repair bill. the farm repair and electronics repair were two separate bills and the farm bill didnt make it. Any tips for my testimony? I was also on the state news about right to repair.

In reply to@jfixesmacs:matrix.org
Hi Louis, I have made a couple messages here about my work in Vermont for right to repair. I had a bill drafted a year ago and some progress has been made. I am a 13 year old kid from Vermont who just likes to fix shit. This tuesday, I am going to testify in front of the committee for the consumer right to repair bill. the farm repair and electronics repair were two separate bills and the farm bill didnt make it. Any tips for my testimony? I was also on the state news about right to repair.

In reply to @louis_rossmann:matrix.org
Practice beforehand. Walk around your neighborhood wearing headphones so people think you are on the phone and not a schizo that's talking to yourself. Practice as if you're talking to normal people. Don't read off a sheet of paper, it bores people to tears

In reply to @jfixesmacs:matrix.org
my neighborhood is rural and doesnt have sidewalks and people speeding so to preserve my life I will just practice in my room tonight.

In reply to @waseemalkurdi:matrix.org
louis_rossmann: the recent Google Exynos modem thing isn't even the worst ... the actual worst part is that on all devices with Qualcomm and Exynos modems, including both ARM devices and x86_64 laptops with Qualcomm X?? modems connected via M.2, the modems have full access to the memory of the host. This means that if someone compromised your modem, say by sending you a malicious text or call or whatever, your entire memory can potentially be accessed.

Don't want to derail this room, but no they absolutely do not have unrestricted DMA. I explained this just a few messages ago: https://matrix.to/#/!HJMJeXImDCbTfjueXC:matrix.org/$KA9fhPCgaWmyvErld6wsewUpoHXMrxpXJrgW5-LxPJc?via=jameskitt616.one&via=matrix.org&via=envs.net

Also, M.2 is just a physical connector, not a protocol. And M.2 is far too big to fit inside a phone.