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AnthonyMousetoday at 10:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

The more astonishing thing is that people regularly talk about this in the context of hosting providers when by far the more significant threat is mobile platforms.

There are a zillion hosting companies, many of them outside the US. Now which mobile platform are you going to use that doesn't give one of two US companies root on your population's phones?


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noir_lordtoday at 11:18 AM

I have a sliding scale of devices I trust more or less (I trust nothing completely).

At the top of the trust scale is a self built desktop running fedora then way further down is my apple devices (iPads) and then even further down is my android phone.

Open source on hardware you control is the least worst option but since the hardware comes from abroad/countries I don’t trust much (including the US) not perfect.

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aembletontoday at 12:03 PM

> Now which mobile platform are you going to use that doesn't give one of two US companies root on your population's phones?

HarmonyOS

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