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By running an open source OS for which I can confirm the contents of all outgoing connections.

You can hope, but even then processor microcode is likely closed source.

And you cannot really confirm the above use case very well. What if it is so sophisticated that it knows when it is being monitored, or it is so random or well hidden, that it might take years to spot.

What is that? Even your custom android build will have some binary blobs for your SoC.

We are just doomed.

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