The OTA updates one is such a tricky issue. What's more important? Not being able to fix bugs in hundreds of millions of devices for a long time (or at all), wh

The OTA updates one is such a tricky issue. What's more important? Not being able to fix bugs in hundreds of millions of devices for a long time (or at all), which NSA is going to use and abuse anyway, or worrying that one vendor will try to push an NSA backdoor to hundreds of millions of devices? I think the best compromise for that is to have OTA updates but the source of the software being upgraded needs to be open source, so at least there's a disincentive to backdoor it and also the possibility of finding the backdoor inside the new update. As for the baseband processor, we need to keep poking at Qualcomm and others to open source their modem firmware, and then vote with your wallet. Getting a SIM card with an open source OS is probably going to take a while, although Google is in a very good position to push for that right now, since their OS is so dominant in the mobile market, so it's probably Google the one we need to nag to get it.