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    11 months ago

    Because China is bad about backdooring everything.

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        11 months ago

        Well the US isn’t nearly as has or obvious as far as I can tell. Cell phones as a whole a problematic but we can at least limit the damage

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          11 months ago

          The US came up with that kind of surveillance, as Snowden has shown us… From an outside perspective they seem just as bad, if not worse than China.

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            11 months ago

            Well the US doesn’t backdoor motherboards to my knowledge. China on the other hand puts literal backdoors on motherboards

            You could try to argue that Intel ME is a backdoor but to my knowledge its only hypothetical with no use in the wild.

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            Perhaps, but I’m still not going to buy Chinese phones