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Sadly I concur, every EU country is better in that situation than Germany.

The whole mobile ecosystem is a giant hardware backdoor on every phone. I think it’s too late now to change anything on that level.

Given what happend with that bar in Canberra, this won’t stay up for long.

Sorry but this whole thing is just snake-oil.

You can verify and sign your whole trust chain down to the last shared library and it doesn’t matter when you don’t know what the binary blobs on your TPM / CPU / BIOS / NIC are doing.

The only guarantee to a secure system is openness an all of that signing won’t help you there.

I don’t trust Microsoft, why should I start trusting IBM/Canonical or Poettering now.

If the possibility is there they will happily lock you out of your own hardware.

Interesting, I wonder if you could do the same now with Internet. We know that DSL works over a wet rope.