[mnw21cam]

Or simply skip that step and get a phone that comes with CyanogenOS installed.

[kbart]

How do you know then that CyanogenOS itself was not modified to include unwanted software?

[dandelion_lover]

I guess one could believe the commercial companies whose revenue depends on the trust and on the ethics, such as https://tehnoetic.com/mobile-devices.

[jlgaddis]

Like this exact article/submission that we're all commenting on, where a commercial company did exactly that?

[dandelion_lover]

Not exactly. I would not say their revenue depended on ethics...