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So? Better a far away government w/ little ability to harm me reading my txt than my local government.

Isn't it likely every phone sold in the US is backdoored by the US government?

I'm honestly not sure what to do about phones these days. It's getting to the point where I don't want one, but I essentially need one for work.

Isn’t that demonstrably untrue given terrorist attacks and shootings that go undetected even though evidence was later found on their phones?

Just because you're capturing a bunch of data doesn't mean you're parsing it/piping it correctly.

Just ask William Binney, et al, re: 911.

I think the US government probably does do this - I know Intel chips have IME, and it runs Minix, that Intel (and whoever Intel reports to) has access to it, and it has it's own IP stack.

But I have no idea about phones - what about ARM? Is there an equivalent?

Not likely anymore. "Evil China" is getting way more leverage by being able to shrug and say: "sure, show us the evidence, oh, btw, `Snowden'" whenever the US try to play the trustworthiness card.