Hmmm, Im not sure I follow the point. Are you just playing a semantics game, or is there an argument here that relates to a larger, more interesting idea? (An idea like "Graphene phones dont actually remove google services" or "Google still interacts with your Graphene phone the same as with a google android phone").

Of course HW backdoors are a known paradigm. Im assumimg the NSA could target an individual if they chose to. I would imagine there are incarnations of the PROMIS software we dont even know about! There are any number of unknowns that graphene cant account for, but are you insinuating that graphene doesnt do what it claims?