>If you don't trust your phone's hardware or software, switch phones.
Given documented cases of three letter agencies intercepting electronic devices to install implants, how can anyone realistically trust any phone they buy, ever?
>how can anyone realistically trust any phone they buy, ever?
Trust in the sense of feeling (not knowing) that there is a reasonable chance that the phone might be secure?
Here's how:
Walk into the store and buy it on the spot. And definitely choose your OS vendor wisely... get your phone from a company that has its own stores, controls inventory in those stores tightly, and does not use the customer as its product. This way you at least maximize your chances of being secure. Do not order the phone online, even from the vendor's web site.
Trust in the sense of 100% absolute knowledge that there is no compromise? Realistically, there's no way to know 100.00000%
Given documented cases of three letter agencies intercepting electronic devices to install implants, how can anyone realistically trust any phone they buy, ever?