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Years ago i had a conversation with Daniel about implementing the possibility to change the IMEI of the device. He is of course aware about the privacy impact a non changeable identifier as the IMEI has. But there is nothing we could do about this. Neither the hardware provides the possibility to do that nor the law allows it. With the exception Africa. This is the only continent where it is explicitly allowed.

We definitely need to investigate if it is regulated by law or any other agreements how airplane mode should behave. Because typing a number, while airplane mode is activated and connecting to a cell tower means the purpose of unlocking the phone is not a complete feature. Anyone could activate the baseband at the moment.

    I highly doubt that this is regulated by law somewhere, but we need to be sure. The feature request should be created like this. "Investigate if emergency calls while not being able to unlock the device must be allowed" later "implement the possibility to disallow emergency calls whiteout unlocking the device"

    Nuttso I live in a western European country and changing your IMEI address is allowed by law (it was outlawed before but now it isn't), in a lot of western countries though its outlawed.

      It would make sense for graphene to allow changing the IMEI with a custom device.

      4 months later

      Hathaway_Noa Srlabs is founded by Karsten Nohl. He is a luminary in the field of mobile security

      By the way did you succeed in disabling the antenna?

        4 months later

        Nuttso hi mate, any possibilities to reach out to you in any ways?

          6 days later

          krayo @nutts0:matrix.org