One of the amusing things I thought about with acquiring a "secure" iPhone was that you should just buy it from a random Walmart in the middle of nowhere in Ame

One of the amusing things I thought about with acquiring a "secure" iPhone was that you should just buy it from a random Walmart in the middle of nowhere in America. The supply chain is so wide and vast, and even if they did tamper with it, the iPhone is basically the only phone out there that multiple third parties have ran through CT scanners, X-ray machines, and silicon R/E just to show off the tech inside the phone like a bunch of nerds for clicks, meaning you have lots of good reference material to check against for any potential tampering of your own acquisition.