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Which leads to the question: if anyone powerful or wealthy enough can take total control of your phone, how comfortable do you feel with that?

There are two routes here. One way is to deal with it the European way, i.e. to try to fix it by a legal framework. The other one is a technical solution like Purism, which is very far from mainstream still. The sooner people realize they have a problem, the sooner they start organizing to find a solution.