Your "cellular phone" does not in fact have "full root memory access 24/7". In modern phone designs, the baseband is a USB peripheral. The notion that the closed, secret baseband is a DMA backdoor into AP memory is a message board meme, not engineering reality.
tptacek|6 years ago
hjkgfdfgh|6 years ago
On Qualcomm chipsets in particular heavily utilize shared memory for baseband to application processor communication.