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Guess degoogled phones with custom OSes will soon be illegal then?
Wasn't a guy convicted on france not long ago and the deciding factor the judge used was because he used linux? WTF is going on there?
Modern hardware is likely exploitable by state actors via firmware/hardware vulnerabilities that can't be mitigated at a software level.
Ya just look at the Intel management engine. Or the AMD platform security processor. Lot of spooky shit like secret op-codes.
We need more open source HW.