> I know a fair number of privacy-concious people, and not one of them have any sort of verifiable control of their hardware. I have a reasonable level of conf

> I know a fair number of privacy-concious people, and not one of them have any sort of verifiable control of their hardware. I have a reasonable level of confidence that my use of wirecutters and/or soldering iron gives me enough control over this kind of thing. It's impractical on a smartphone, but I solve that by not owning one.