> Android being open source Well, it's not exactly like that. Things like cellular modems are almost always closed source, and those are normally integral part

> Android being open source Well, it's not exactly like that. Things like cellular modems are almost always closed source, and those are normally integral parts of the phone itself. Then there's proprietary parts of Android itself (the kernel is open, but not necessarily all of the software surrounding it) - not to mention things like hardware blobs. All of this to say, it could certainly happen to Androids the same way that it theoretically could happen to iPhones. But then, on top of the ethical question, there comes the question of practicality - would we really want to focus on disabling phones when things like converting cheap phones into cellular jammers would have a more direct effect on the Russian military? Anyway, there's my $0.02...