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I suspect that the company would get a visit from the secret service

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The default assumption should always be that everything is backdoored, _especially_ these "privacy-first" products

That's why it would need a software equivalent of nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers, i.e. open-source firmware.

There's still Trusting Trust, but that's rather harder to pull off.

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The default assumption should always be that everything is backdoored, _especially_ these "privacy-first" products

That's why it would need a software equivalent of nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers, i.e. open-source firmware.

There's still Trusting Trust, but that's rather harder to pull off.

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