• Claidheamh@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago

    Why not? Some of the easiest bootloaders to unlock in the smartphone market are in chinese phones.

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          11 months ago

          Well the US isn’t nearly as has or obvious as far as I can tell. Cell phones as a whole a problematic but we can at least limit the damage

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            11 months ago

            The US came up with that kind of surveillance, as Snowden has shown us… From an outside perspective they seem just as bad, if not worse than China.

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              11 months ago

              Well the US doesn’t backdoor motherboards to my knowledge. China on the other hand puts literal backdoors on motherboards

              You could try to argue that Intel ME is a backdoor but to my knowledge its only hypothetical with no use in the wild.