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The developers could do sneaky things with any device that has wifi and a mic.


And yet most people have a phone in their pocket.


Try to live without it. It's almost impossible. I try to use Librem 5 as a daily driver, with hardware kill switches and GNU/Linux, and it's not always easy.


Well that’s my point, we’ve already just accepted the risk. Probably more than half of people think their phone is spy on them but carry it anyway.




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