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You're right to be concerned about hardware backdoors; it's a tough issue. While no solution is perfect, you can increase your security and trust.

Consider exploring open-source hardware options like the Librem 5, MNT Reform, or Fairphone.

From personal experience avoid PinePhone(not knocking the company or saying they spy but the hardware is dated AF, shit battery life, had issues out the box that bricked it til I flashed another OS, etc)

These decices use open-source hardware as well and thus aim for greater transparency in their design and components.

Pairing such hardware with a software security-focused OS like GrapheneOS adds another strong layer, hardening your device against software vulnerabilities and enhancing privacy.

Use multiple devices for different online activities to compartmentalize what you do thus making it harder for anyone from AI to governments to build profiles on you.

This multi-devicr layered approach helps. It's not just about governments; corporations engage in extensive data collection too.

They just use it to psychologically manipulate you to buy more dumn shit.

Using more auditable hardware and software gives you more control.

While it's hard to achieve absolute certainty, taking these steps is a significant improvement over using closed, black-box systems with no transparency. Every layer helps.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 7mo ago

Open source hardware is all similarly untrustworthy

You can't just mine materials and bring them to a factory and make a phone, the machinery is all controlled by a global deep state cartel. Russia is buying 20 year old machinery and spending billions of dollars and years of time just to make a big drama show out of pretending to defy the global deep state with 20 year old shit. In theory next year they'd be able to make a CPU almost on par with the original iPhone, but still not the rest of the phone, and they're still just pretending to not be part of that global deep state cartel.

You can't make deals with hardware manufacturers to get anything made without being on board with the deep state cartel.

None of the phones currently even really try to pretend to be open source by using a RISC-V CPU and stuff, they just slap an "open source" label on a phone and leave it at that. Same as Google does with Android, only more exaggerated.

What I'd really be interested in is a phone manufacturer that doesn't blatantly openly lie, but I don't see how that can happen in the foreseeable future. It seems like it would take a movement of people who actually care enough to use critical thinking to identify deceptive behaviors and boycott electronics as much as possible until the global deep state starts letting honest people get their designs made and marketed.

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The DeFi Raider 7mo ago

That's a future we're probably going to have to build ourselves friend, and we're going to have to stop asking permission to do it. I don't know about where you're from, but here in America we take our freedom very seriously, even if they try to(or successfully) kill us for it. So yeah that's about where I'm at, I'm learning to build things and I'm done asking permission from people that never had the authority to make me in the first place. 😜

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 7mo ago

At least for now we can build nostr 🤙