OK, all this is good but I really need to talk to someone who's into featurephones topic. #asknostr I'm stuck on several directions of reverse-engineering: 1) MT6261: - decrypting/unpacking MAUI partitions (**besides** ALICE_2) - an open source way to flash any area (don't point me to Ubuntu FlashTool version please, the libflashtool.so is not open source) - META mode (protocol, commands, everything) 2) MT6276: handshake, dumping, META mode (protocol, commands, everything) 3) SC6531 (any revision): diag protocol, direct NVRAM access within packed ROMs 4) SC770x: handshake, dumping, FS structure 5) UMS9117(L): handshake, dumping, FS structure 6) MT6572: flashing (low-level), META mode (protocol, commands, everything) 7) MT6731: flashing (low-level), secureboot bypass, META mode (protocol, commands, everything) Any piece of information on the above topics would be extremely helpful for the development of FOSS featurephone customization and malware removal tools. Also, if anyone has a full flash dump of CAT B26, I'd appreciate it too to be able to repair mine.

I remember asking a (seemingly smart) guy advocating for PinePhone (or was it Purism Librem? don't remember) on a forum: "Secure and privacy-friendly, you say? Does it even allow IMEI editing?" The answer was: "No, but why would you want to ever do this?" Facepalm. Guys, being able to kill the radio power on the hardware level doesn't mean the phone is privacy-friendly. Being able to fully change your network identification (while the radio is off) does. Being able to fully kill the power to every module (preferably by quickly removing the battery) does. I don't wish anyone to end up in a situation where they would actually need to do this, but at least trust someone who did.

Kinda amusing seeing folks here talking about privacy and anti-censorship... only to later find out they still use cookphones, cookOS and/or faildows. And/or githubs of all sorts. And/or binance. And/or alexa or other "smart home" systems made by who knows who with who knows what. If this isn't hypocrisy, I don't know what is.