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> Ask yourself, how can law enforcement push a software trojan into any mobile phone without physically touching it.

Can they?

> Are you really free to bake your own bread? (Think about

Yes. It's not easy, but it's not impossible. You have to fight for your freedom to get it.

Yes, they can. This is another reason for having closed source blobs running as root under Linux/Android to manage all communication.

You cannot fight for this, unless you design both the communication hardware and its firmware and you get away from Google Play.

> You cannot fight for this, unless design both the communication hardware and its firmware

This is exactly what my phone is. There are no blobs. It runs FSF-endorsed PureOS. Using it is fighting.

3GB RAM? 4G only? No, thanks.

And, btw, are you running Google Play services?

In this case, all of your efforts have been made useless.

AFAIK you can't run Google Play services on GNU/Linux.

> 3GB RAM? 4G only?

Fighting, you know, requires some compromises. See also: https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/