• Pantherina
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    The firmware of the device components, that needs to be signed by the manifacturer and often has critical bugs.

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        Modem, wifi/bluetooth chip, many more possibly.

        • Baut [she/her] auf.
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          In case of the modem I know it doesn’t need to be signed. In fact, there exists an open source firmware for it.