[makomk]

It's also important to remember that anyone who can compromise your Google account or put legal pressure on Google can remotely install software on your device without interaction from you, and that there have been attacks in the past that have hijacked credentials in suck a way that the attacker doesn't even need to do that.

[simoncion]

Sure, sure. It's also important to remember that there are often chips in phones that are remotely accessible and have privileged access to the memory in the device. The consumer hardware security situation is... not the best.

> ...put legal pressure on Google can remotely install software on your device...

Given their actions in the past, I expect that Google would refuse to do this. That would be a bad precedent to set, given that Google operates in some countries with rather questionable reputations in regards to civil liberties.