Is there no value to a phone that reduces your NSA dragnet footprint substantially, while at the same time building the capital necessary to develop an open baseband (as I'm sure you're aware, that is not a cheap proposition)?
Easy to make your own burner phone with customized AOSP for temporary use while in China or CIS/Russia if worried about industrial espionage or legions of criminal blackhats hanging around hotel wireless APs. After going through the source removing stuff like debuggered and GPS binaries, and writing custom init scripts can drop in TextSecure, Redphone and many other open source apps, thegrugq's Darkmatter app, platform sign them and enforce with middleware install-time mac to prevent anything else not signed being installed and use dm-verity to check system.img on boot for tampering. Lot's of business travelers need something reasonably secure to bring that they just end up throwing away when they return. Boot a Mobiflauge patched kernel temporarily with fastboot and wipe/encrypt the device when you get back for safe disposal, then flash Paranoid Android or CyanogenMod to it and sell it on CL to get some of your money back.
There's also Nexus 7 devices that can be bought without a baseband to do this. Essential reading is the Android Hacker's Handbook by @pof. Of course using any phone for something illegal is a guaranteed way to get arrested no matter what has been done to it. The hardware will always be a bundle of proprietary blackboxes, likely with a law enforcement door to brick it, record meetings with the mic or track the owner.
For some definition of 'easy' I suppose... (not any definition that the average person would use).