[zby]

"Luckily, the politicians in Germany and Europe wake up. They want to build up European chip and hardware facilities to have the full chain in Europe. Also they plan to demand certification and customer visible labels. Finally!"

So far similar efforts by EU were rather underwhelming - but this one is probably the most important. I believe EU is the only global actor that can achieve the goal of creating reliable hardware and software. The still decentralized nature of EU means that no partner can afford any unilateral action (like backdoors) - and a conspiracy on the level of whole EU is impossible.

And of course it needs to be Open Source.