{"id":63049,"date":"2026-04-14T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/the-pixel-10-is-getting-a-big-security-boost-you-may-have-never-actually-seen\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:09:10","slug":"the-pixel-10-is-getting-a-big-security-boost-you-may-have-never-actually-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/the-pixel-10-is-getting-a-big-security-boost-you-may-have-never-actually-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pixel 10 is getting a big security boost you may have never actually seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"aa-img-source-credit\">\n<div class=\"aa-img-source-and-credit full\">\n<div class=\"aa-img-credit text-right\"><span>Credit: <\/span>Joe Maring\/Android Authority<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aa_tldr_text\" style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4;padding: 10px\"><strong>TL;DR<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google is integrating the Rust programming language into the Pixel 10&#8217;s modem firmware to mitigate memory-protection vulnerabilities like buffer overflows.<\/li>\n<li>This change allows the modem to block remote code execution (RCE) attempts triggered by malicious radio signals or SMS, requiring no user interaction.<\/li>\n<li>Although this change does not affect signal strength or speed, it addresses a security vector that has been overlooked by many in the industry for decades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>Practically all of us take the modem in our phones for granted. It is a vital component that controls network-related functions on your phone, and because of its importance, the modem runs complex and proprietary code that is extremely difficult to secure. Google now has <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2026\/04\/bringing-rust-to-pixel-baseband.html\">announced<\/a> A significant change in its security strategy reveals that it has successfully integrated the Rust programming language into the Pixel&#8217;s baseband firmware.<\/p>\n<p>While the current Pixel 9 already includes early mitigations, the Pixel 10 is the first Pixel to feature active, memory-safe Rust code within its modem architecture (h\/t). <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/04\/google-shoehorned-rust-into-pixel-10-modem-to-make-legacy-code-safer\/\"><em>Arstechnica<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Joe Maring\/Android Authority TL;DR Google is integrating the Rust programming language into the Pixel 10&#8217;s modem firmware to mitigate memory-protection vulnerabilities like buffer overflows. This change allows the modem to block remote code execution (RCE) attempts triggered by malicious radio signals or SMS, requiring no user interaction. Although this change does not affect signal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[872,1398,2284,543],"class_list":["post-63049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-big","tag-boost","tag-pixel","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63054,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63049\/revisions\/63054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}