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by nextaccountic 78 days ago
Yes, the US government and US courts (including the secret court FISC) have tools to compel Google, Apple and other vendors to install malware on users devices. This is exactly the point.

The US government routinely deploys malware to users devices, for multiple reasons. Here is a 2017 link about this: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/challenging-gov...

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Would you mind showing me some evidence that software update systems are able to push to you e.g. a different Android update based on your device ID or specific IP? (not just country geolocation) (PS: your link is about deploying malware through other routes, not by normal software updates)

Because all the other means I can think of are just basic malwarfare.

As you need to rely on a vendor/distributor to get updates, then of course they are able to push you malware, there is absolutely no going around this first ring of trust.

Conclusion : there is no point in accusing Proton of anything... there are just being software providers (FOSS by the way!!!).