>Technical Question Of course you can, but even then you're still trusting the firmware that is being put out by the potentially hostile company even if you ga

>Technical Question Of course you can, but even then you're still trusting the firmware that is being put out by the potentially hostile company even if you gate keep it. To check it would require a software team at least as large as the potentially hostile one for any serious attack. That's a big economic incentive to trust the manufacturer. >sending the high definition photos Or you could just send metadata, telemetry, and flight diagnostics that can be used to build up sensitive information under the guise of metrics. Remember that the NSA was mostly just using metadata too. >it was blamed as a bug and not espionage In these cases, the two look exactly the same in software, so proving one or the other is very difficult.