Trent W. Buck wrote:
Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
if I was a multi-billion dollar company whose market share depends on my credibility; then when some government agency; wants to pressure me into inserting a back-door, into the hardware or software of my mobile phone design, then I am gambling that credibility against the possibility that some time in the future, it will not be discovered, At Enron, they called that "I'll be gone; you'll be gone."
Nowadays, multinationals can have enough money to just change people's minds directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_management ...so they don't need to worry about "being caught" or "looking bad".
Yes; well we will just have to agree to disagree about the feasibility of that; to return to my original post : "Given the hardware issues (previous thread) discovered in Samsung Galaxy hardware, by Lineage developers; not to mention the proprietary issues with Android "spyware for Google"; might it not be useful to encourage ZTE and Huawei to start a campaign, advertising privacy and security issues in the hardware and software of mobile phones, from non-chinese companies ? " regards Rohan McLeod