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by simondotau 1775 days ago
Your last point is a slippery slope that began the moment you allowed any software on any device to update itself. Literally any software that updates itself could be converted into a treacherous surveillance system at any time.

And literally any cloud storage service could betray you at any time without pushing new binaries to your hardware.

And nobody ever has to tell you shit.

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for all that i know the software doesn’t even need to update itself. it may have the backdoor built in.

so now what? go back to landlines? stop using a “smart”phone?