Privacy invasion will continue until morale improves.

You’re right. We need alternatives to these platforms. We have GrapheneOS and other projects which are helpful but ultimately we rely on a handful of hardware manufacturers that can be easily tapped by governments to put in backdoors at the hardware layer. It’s happened time and time again [1].

Ideally we’d lower the barrier to simple chip fabrication so we can build basic phones and laptops ourselves. Until then it’s impossible to secure our devices.

1. https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/exploit-used-in-mass-iphone-infection-campaign-targeted-secret-hardware-feature/

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I'm getting a mudita kompact phone. There's fairphone, volla phones, etc etc.

You have the ability to take action at the software level, take it and make their lives harder.