> if a state agent is ... ever in a situation where their device is inspected, the game is already over. (I don't think the above summarization alters the inte

> if a state agent is ... ever in a situation where their device is inspected, the game is already over. (I don't think the above summarization alters the intent of your statement.) IMO, if you're at "state agent" level, well, just about all the countries either have the manufacturing capacity, either locally or through agency partnership with ally countries, to construct devices capable of maintaining a clean the appearance even while being examined with very expensive equipment. For example, you could probably do a lot if you could replace the 0th-stage bootloader in the NAND controller. And NAND is manufactured at such crazy scale, the one-off test runs probably wouldn't be all that expensive, and the turnaround time might even be weeks to days.