> It's a locked down device running closed source software, and it's impossible to know what it really does behind the user's back.
That’s hardly true, analyzing binaries is not significantly more difficult without access to the source code. Even if you did have the source code, any serious analysis would focus on the binaries as seemingly innocuous code can be transformed into something else by a compiler.
If we’re talking about some deep hardware level backdoors, you presumably don’t have your own fab and therefore are stuck with trusting whoever you get hardware from.
That’s hardly true, analyzing binaries is not significantly more difficult without access to the source code. Even if you did have the source code, any serious analysis would focus on the binaries as seemingly innocuous code can be transformed into something else by a compiler.
If we’re talking about some deep hardware level backdoors, you presumably don’t have your own fab and therefore are stuck with trusting whoever you get hardware from.