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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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It depends how far down the rabbit hole you're willing to go.
Today you can make sure the source code is truly what you intend, by running Linux on PC and GrapheneOS on Android. You might not have the ability to audit those, but others (like me) do, and are doing so.
Whether you believe us or not is more philosophy - but join us in the rabbit hole and see what you find. You'll find detailed public technical discussions of security and privacy. You can find some of that for closed software and hardware too, but we can never do as good of a job in that discussion without the source code.
If you want open auditable hardware, you can stick to Raspberry Pi.
There's an open hardware project for phone too, but it's more of a proof-of-concept, today, as far as I understand.
If you want the TL;DR version of where I landed - I posted this from a Pixel running GrapheneOS.
Graphene on a pixel 5 here my brother
Exactly. There could not be true / full ownership of hardware.
And yet that's fine for me.
Now about that:
Even in that case you can never be sure what a compiler did with the code. You can say: go look at the code of that compiler. But then how can I be sure it's code had been compiled without malicious modifications. And so on.
You can compile your compiler from source.
Edit: Here's how: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Edit 2: I know you can hear the rabbit hole calling to you. Join us. Follow the rabbit trail.
But seriously, it's cool, you're curious about it, and the pay from the jobs it leads to tends to be pretty great.