| > I think there's value in challenging the US government on these issues. It also helps set the tone in general. Sure, but a lot was and is also being decided behind the screens. > The only real alternative is Android. Depends on use cases. Also, there are Android derivative works. > Also, which non-US phone would you suggest? The Fairphone 2 allows one to run a completely open source version of Android which doesn't rely on Google [1]. But there are other alternatives as well. Jolla, for example. > And therefore open to the possibility of a backdoor (or other) requests by the US government. Is the software compiled deterministically? Also, the hardware of nearly every phone is assembled in China. The chips nearly all come from China (Fairphone tried to work around it; couldn't). And therefore open to the possibility of a backdoor (or other) requests by the Chinese government. [1] https://www.fairphone.com/en/2016/04/28/releasing-the-fairph... |