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Though it's a lot easier to compel Apple to silently push a wiretap update to a handset than to have, several months/year ago, engineered a secret backdoor into a chipset...

You've gotta draw the line somewhere (unless you're rms). I would venture to say an open source OS and applications on worldwide-deployed hardware in the hundreds of millions count is probably safe enough for my purposes.




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