[jll29]

Since you can't trust any company, and you're not going to build your own device from first principles, best to avoid mobile devices alltogether. Get an old pre-owned Nokia for phone calls and use laptop-based messaging if you need it.

I wrote a messaging app based on one-time pad encryption but ended up not using it due to poor-quality random numbers available to me (you can buy external random devices but I don't trust any vendor).

Always remember Leidner's First Law: "Security is an illusion."

[yowlingcat]

We live in 2022. Eschewing modern inventions and "returning to the wilderness" is a rhetorical cop out.

The problem has nothing to do with taking a "since you can't trust any company" approach is you avoid the reality of the situation -- which is that certain companies index lower than others.

The company making this phone seems a little dubious.