It's always been this way, but now it's in your face because you've become the product. The bullshit of Google's Do No Evil policy, combined with leaky sieve called Facebook, leads to deserved mistrust.
The ethics of privacy depends on the perspective of if you're human, or a slave to Wall Street and shareholder return, as you cite. That other jurisdictions revolt as has happened with the GDPR in the EU is only natural. The thieves of privacy are more worried about maintaining their monopolies than their product, which is YOU.
There are some parts of Detroit, like most US cities, where you don't want to get out from behind the bulletproof plexiglass, ya know?
This one just kept disbelieving as a train of cars sucked gas out of the pump. Why did it keep pumping? Hot night? Fried circuit? Sensor that the pump handle reached shutoff didn't work, and the first buyer was oddly authorized for a mint? Or was manually enabled by the operator, then he tried to cover his tracks?
Lots of this is explainable, and perhaps credible. It was a fuckup, and unlikely a new and kewl pump auth attack. Someone pressed the wrong button, or a sensor or logic board fried. Have fun with the conspiracy theories, but nope, unlikely.
But we're over-fishing the oceans. Over-polluting agricultural areas, leading to vast areas of dead zones in the ocean.
The earth, like the electromagnet spectrum, is a finite resource. In civil societies, we try to manage sharing these resources. Some will try to dominate, viz the overtaking of spectrum by phone companies and alt.right broadcasters. There are ways to redress this theft.
The concept of oligarchy is more likely kleptocracy. Without civility, without a method of governance, we're back to being apes, no more than animals-- which we are-- but without that all-important mutual survival conscience.
Lots of that going on. There will be those that keep getting them renewed, those drivers licenses, and still have insurance.
A neighbor recently was hit by someone with neither license or insurance. Not quite two hundred grand worth of medical bills, not to mention no car, but he still has to do the payments. His uninsured motorist pays a bit, but not for the car.
Some try to keep civil, despite the incompetence of a bribed government. Some don't. Some try to work for change, others make up their own rules, or have none at all.
Worse, those living in the licensed spectrum look for journalists, DJs, programmers, producers, all the time, across the USA. Some of the stations are commercial, but there are still many that are not. There is lots of opportunity with licensed entities. Lots.
If you want to talk on the radio, there loads of unlicensed spectrum waiting for you. There are limitations imposed, largely to prevent bleed-over into other parts of the spectrum-- mostly about power and splatter.
The spectrum is finite. It's a shared resource, like water and land.
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater is never a good idea. The history of the FCC is both sordid and has bright moments in it. The current regime is patently sold-out, IMHO. But this wasn't always the case.
I didn't believe that the prior head of the FCC, once of The Telecoms, would be fair, but he turned out to be a real advocate for the citizenry, not the corporate block.
No matter who's in charge, there is a price for civility, and that's not-insurrection. Insurrection often follows fascism, as liberated people grasp for rules among the slingshot of freedom. Civility is the rubber band that keeps us remembering that peace is a function of the elasticity of that rubber band.
Cutting (actually altering) the funding of the FCC means that like other agencies, they've moved into a PR phase where they bark loudly, and forgot the stick, save a few emblematic cases.
When these agencies are weak, people will take advantage of their weaknesses, as you have with two unlicensed stations. Drug companies are starting to walk all over the FTC and more. The wolves are in the hen house, to use rural metaphor. Constant cutting of IRS funding has made it incredibly weak and lacking in enforcement as well. Think it's a plot? Some do.
But it's not an excuse for abuse. That rubber band can snap and anarchy and revolt ensue. Tightened, it looks a lot like fascism or worse. Others have successfully gone through the drill. You can, too. Yeah, lots of bureaucracy. I deal with it, as do others. Doing so, we remain civil. Doesn't mean we can't bitch about it, and try and reform it.
May I suggest quantum brain, where >3bits is ok and encouraged.
There's far more depth to the issue. Rationalizing incivility is a slippery slope. You don't know me, don't know what I do, but you're easy to cast judgment.
In the poster's case, he's admitted running two pirate radio stations with ostensible altruistic motives as his rationalization for doing so. I'm not a cop and don't want to be one. But I do listen avidly to radio, and know both public media and commercial broadcasters, who must deal with the problem that the poster creates.
It's not all about me. It's about everyone that tries to listen to radio. I'm no fan of the current FCC, but for a while, it did a reasonable job of protecting the airwaves. Its funding has been cut to the bone by its board, who prefers to fly on PR missions around the country, rather than protect the medium.
That said, falling into anarchy isn't going to serve anyone. Like guns, having zillions of broadcasters isn't going to help anyone.
In the real world, I see small stations struggling to be heard. Ones that went through the stupid drill "enforced" by the FCC. I'm no fascist. I see the NRA use similar "altruistic" motives to justify their evil, preying on fear.
The airwaves are becoming dominated by religious broadcaster, lockstep with Trump and his minions. Oversight by the FCC is profoundly weak, serving commercial donors to political parties and lobbying organizations. Therein lies the crux of the airwaves problem: money.
Not all problems have a root in The Cheeto, although he's a poster child for manipulation and divisiveness to maintain control. This isn't about control, rather, it's about a civil society.
Altruism doesn't give you a pass. Such rationalisms are the crux of narcissistic behavior. Living in a civilized world means looking after everyone, and deeply at your own motives.
Rationalizing incivility leads to a lot of the evil that the world sees today. You're not a hero, only a cowboy with an exciter.
And because these are for altruistic motives, you get a free pass? If this valley has no MATV system or cable, they live in a dead zone. Lots of those in the USA.
Now you're talking two stations. Altruism give you the right? You sound like the NRA.
Funny how this same organization sponsors international commercial and amateur broadcasting regulations. Whiff. Try again.
Indeed the charter doesn't limit freedom of expression. I don't advocate that at all, either. To do so in a civil way requires removing anarchy from the airwaves. Try living in SE Asia and finding out what airwave/radio madness is all about.
Until then, you just gotta broadcast, right? Compelled to broadcast! Can't live without broadcasting?
You didn't answer those questions. What is it that compels you to squat on the airwaves over the rest of us? Is it some secret important message? Not hearing enough Black Sabbath? Your message must be heard? What is it? Why do you have to not only flaunt the law, but believe you're better than everyone else and can do it no matter the consequences? Are laws and civility made for other people and not you? Do tell.
Spectrum in populated areas across the USA is tight. Even tiny stations have to ensure they don't interfere with others. If you're operating outside the bounds of your license (if you have one), then you do others a great disservice, and add to the increasing madness on the airwaves. I dislike the FCC as much as the next person, but you do both listeners and broadcasters a great dissservice. There is no inherent right to broadcast on licensed bands, the world over. It's not in the UN Charter of Human Rights. You make up your own rules to follow your own ego. Therein is the crux of the piracy problem.
To answer your questions: yes. It needs to be default. Users, civilians, need to know when a web page is sending info across a network that's unencrypted, e.g. as plain text. They don't know the implications.
It would be a wonderful world if key management was simple, and it can be. CASB apps make it simple.
Wait until you find wire-sniffing apps inside your (expletives deleted) routers, or someone that's programmed a router port mirror to a tor listener. Security isn't that tough, but it eludes thousands of organizations. Look at this weeks, largest-ever breach in Florida, where most all of the living population of the United States had their names, addresses, and a few other juicy fields snarfed because of stupidity. The basics should include TLS 1.3.
Yes it changes. Anything valuable still requires paying attention to it. Civilians are clueless, and it's up to the responsible ones to do the job. So we do it. LetsCrypt is an easy method to get a cert and use it. I'm still unsatisfied that WPA3 is worth it, but I like how it works at a glance. In the real world, much stuff is broken and vendors are stupid and in it for this quarter's model, and this quarter's report to Wall Street and little else. Raising the standard from plain text to encrypted is an important step.
HTTPS doesn't require much at all. This writer's observations aren't very good. The https everywhere movement is a bare-minimum. We once were foolish enough to trust others on the web; the concept of zero-trust is where we are today, and for good, even outstanding reasons. That Google champions it is fine, even though Google is a corral of skunks, in my opinion, perhaps the worst robbers of privacy on the net.
In this case, however, https is absolutely the right direction, and twenty-five years of ostensible trust is more than naive, it's freaking treacherous out there, even for hackers with half a brain.
Or mowing a lawn in a white neighborhood while being black in the USA. Or being a journalist in a newsroom when someone has a grudge. Or simply being a kid in school when someone gets a hold of family weapons and slaughters you.
Perhaps going to a wedding in Yemen. Being on a 747 that moves accidentally in to Russian airspace. Or dying in the Arizona desert to escape the brutality of puppet Central American regimes.
Maybe it was black lung disease, asbestos, benzene. Decades of nicotine or alcohol addiction. Something's going to get you, and nihilistic surveys on Italians means only that they escaped these things and ate well and exercised.
You're really lucky. The only competition in my area are boutique markets, a miserable food co-op, farmers markets, and yes, there's a Sam's + Walmart, but they're far away and also lacking any reasonable competitors. I drive to a major city periodically, nearby, and stock up. Around where I live, they've boosted prices 10-50%+ and lowered nothing, with bizarre supply chain mistakes, product shortages, and botched loss leaders.
Wall Street has been punishing Kroger, and with good reason. I applaud them for wanting to be futuristic, but they're otherwise worse than the Three Stooges.
This presumes Kroger survives. It's now caught in the middle of wanting to be a cross between Walmart and Amazon, and they're not doing well at either.
They're caught in the middle of a waning UX experience they botched, along with a curb-side service that's killing them with overhead. They're raised prices far, far beyond inflation, and their customers know it, and are seeking alternatives in droves.
In my area, they're an accidental monopoly, and are milking it for all they're worth. Autonomous vehicles have no chance in my area, logisitcally for at least a dozen years, so all of the hype is for the PR swallowers. That last-few-feet problem is by no means solved, and the robotic reliability and cost effectiveness needed will take another decade. Today, it's science fiction and an attempt to steal mind-share from their perceived competitors, each of whom tells fibs about things like drone delivery, etc.
And the AMD fawners are also in a reality distortion field.
Remember that every Ryzen CPU has hideous unpatched PSP bugs in it. Yes, they make good GPUs, but when your CPU can have both hyperthreading attacks coupled to unknown PSP states, it's not worth used toilet paper. That's not to pimp Intel-- they have their own woes.
NVIDIA does no one any favors with this draconian NDA.
Don't be a bullshit artist. You have no idea, and are simply parroting your weenie fears.
Do Chinese orgs become involved in IP theft and espionage? Yes, it's a proven fact. What you didn't conveniently get around to is the question I asked: cite chapter and verse.
You can't, because there isn't any. This is all about three letter agencies miffed that they can't impregnate your smartphone with their own tracking ware, or your router, etc.
Read the info rather than parroting the paranoia memes. This is about reality.
From the article you cite: "Ms. Lim said the software was intended to help the Chinese client identify junk text messages and calls. She did not identify the company that requested it and said she did not know how many phones were affected. She said phone companies, not Adups, were responsible for disclosing privacy policies to users. âoeAdups was just there to provide functionality that the phone distributor asked for,â she said.
Android phones run software that is developed by Google and distributed free for phone manufacturers to customize. A Google official said the company had told Adups to remove the surveillance ability from phones that run services like the Google Play store. That would not include devices in China, where hundreds of millions of people use Android phones but where Google does not operate because of censorship concerns.
Because Adups has not published a list of affected phones, it is not clear how users can determine whether their phones are vulnerable. âoePeople who have some technical skills could,â Mr. Karygiannis, the Kryptowire vice president, said. âoeBut the average consumer? No.â
The malware was removed. How many malware citations would you like concerning Android in general?
Cite then, chapter and verse, where Huawei has a product that contains code that benefits the Chinese government in a security risk scenario.
No one has. It's bullshit until they do. This is Cisco/Juniper bribery/legislative influence until someone points to actual code that is a security risk or compromise.
Are they backdoor'd? Are their routers loaded with malware? No one can point to a smoking gun. This is about economics, not security, until they can cite actual security problems. This is the same group of legislative nitwits that are slowly killing the ACA, twiddling their thumbs while children are forcibly separated from their parents at borders, who can't decide on a budget, but who are happy to pass massive budget if the word "military" is involved, spend billions on planes that don't fly, and otherwise don't have anything like consumerism in mind.
The Android operating system is a recipe for making Google plentiful amounts of money, with security a nascent side-thought. Google Play is rife with malware, crypto-currency laden apps, and worse.
So when you say, "I suppose you don't fully grasp the threat of backdoored mobile computers", I have to laugh loudly.
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It's always been this way, but now it's in your face because you've become the product. The bullshit of Google's Do No Evil policy, combined with leaky sieve called Facebook, leads to deserved mistrust.
The ethics of privacy depends on the perspective of if you're human, or a slave to Wall Street and shareholder return, as you cite. That other jurisdictions revolt as has happened with the GDPR in the EU is only natural. The thieves of privacy are more worried about maintaining their monopolies than their product, which is YOU.
There are some parts of Detroit, like most US cities, where you don't want to get out from behind the bulletproof plexiglass, ya know?
This one just kept disbelieving as a train of cars sucked gas out of the pump. Why did it keep pumping? Hot night? Fried circuit? Sensor that the pump handle reached shutoff didn't work, and the first buyer was oddly authorized for a mint? Or was manually enabled by the operator, then he tried to cover his tracks?
Lots of this is explainable, and perhaps credible. It was a fuckup, and unlikely a new and kewl pump auth attack. Someone pressed the wrong button, or a sensor or logic board fried. Have fun with the conspiracy theories, but nope, unlikely.
Some of what you say is true.
But we're over-fishing the oceans. Over-polluting agricultural areas, leading to vast areas of dead zones in the ocean.
The earth, like the electromagnet spectrum, is a finite resource. In civil societies, we try to manage sharing these resources. Some will try to dominate, viz the overtaking of spectrum by phone companies and alt.right broadcasters. There are ways to redress this theft.
The concept of oligarchy is more likely kleptocracy. Without civility, without a method of governance, we're back to being apes, no more than animals-- which we are-- but without that all-important mutual survival conscience.
Lots of that going on. There will be those that keep getting them renewed, those drivers licenses, and still have insurance.
A neighbor recently was hit by someone with neither license or insurance. Not quite two hundred grand worth of medical bills, not to mention no car, but he still has to do the payments. His uninsured motorist pays a bit, but not for the car.
Some try to keep civil, despite the incompetence of a bribed government. Some don't. Some try to work for change, others make up their own rules, or have none at all.
But the entire spectrum isn't licensed at all.
Worse, those living in the licensed spectrum look for journalists, DJs, programmers, producers, all the time, across the USA. Some of the stations are commercial, but there are still many that are not. There is lots of opportunity with licensed entities. Lots.
If you want to talk on the radio, there loads of unlicensed spectrum waiting for you. There are limitations imposed, largely to prevent bleed-over into other parts of the spectrum-- mostly about power and splatter.
The spectrum is finite. It's a shared resource, like water and land.
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater is never a good idea. The history of the FCC is both sordid and has bright moments in it. The current regime is patently sold-out, IMHO. But this wasn't always the case.
I didn't believe that the prior head of the FCC, once of The Telecoms, would be fair, but he turned out to be a real advocate for the citizenry, not the corporate block.
No matter who's in charge, there is a price for civility, and that's not-insurrection. Insurrection often follows fascism, as liberated people grasp for rules among the slingshot of freedom. Civility is the rubber band that keeps us remembering that peace is a function of the elasticity of that rubber band.
Cutting (actually altering) the funding of the FCC means that like other agencies, they've moved into a PR phase where they bark loudly, and forgot the stick, save a few emblematic cases.
When these agencies are weak, people will take advantage of their weaknesses, as you have with two unlicensed stations. Drug companies are starting to walk all over the FTC and more. The wolves are in the hen house, to use rural metaphor. Constant cutting of IRS funding has made it incredibly weak and lacking in enforcement as well. Think it's a plot? Some do.
But it's not an excuse for abuse. That rubber band can snap and anarchy and revolt ensue. Tightened, it looks a lot like fascism or worse. Others have successfully gone through the drill. You can, too. Yeah, lots of bureaucracy. I deal with it, as do others. Doing so, we remain civil. Doesn't mean we can't bitch about it, and try and reform it.
May I suggest quantum brain, where >3bits is ok and encouraged.
There's far more depth to the issue. Rationalizing incivility is a slippery slope. You don't know me, don't know what I do, but you're easy to cast judgment.
In the poster's case, he's admitted running two pirate radio stations with ostensible altruistic motives as his rationalization for doing so. I'm not a cop and don't want to be one. But I do listen avidly to radio, and know both public media and commercial broadcasters, who must deal with the problem that the poster creates.
It's not all about me. It's about everyone that tries to listen to radio. I'm no fan of the current FCC, but for a while, it did a reasonable job of protecting the airwaves. Its funding has been cut to the bone by its board, who prefers to fly on PR missions around the country, rather than protect the medium.
That said, falling into anarchy isn't going to serve anyone. Like guns, having zillions of broadcasters isn't going to help anyone.
In the real world, I see small stations struggling to be heard. Ones that went through the stupid drill "enforced" by the FCC. I'm no fascist. I see the NRA use similar "altruistic" motives to justify their evil, preying on fear.
The airwaves are becoming dominated by religious broadcaster, lockstep with Trump and his minions. Oversight by the FCC is profoundly weak, serving commercial donors to political parties and lobbying organizations. Therein lies the crux of the airwaves problem: money.
Not all problems have a root in The Cheeto, although he's a poster child for manipulation and divisiveness to maintain control. This isn't about control, rather, it's about a civil society.
Altruism doesn't give you a pass. Such rationalisms are the crux of narcissistic behavior. Living in a civilized world means looking after everyone, and deeply at your own motives.
Rationalizing incivility leads to a lot of the evil that the world sees today. You're not a hero, only a cowboy with an exciter.
And because these are for altruistic motives, you get a free pass? If this valley has no MATV system or cable, they live in a dead zone. Lots of those in the USA.
Now you're talking two stations. Altruism give you the right? You sound like the NRA.
Funny how this same organization sponsors international commercial and amateur broadcasting regulations. Whiff. Try again.
Indeed the charter doesn't limit freedom of expression. I don't advocate that at all, either. To do so in a civil way requires removing anarchy from the airwaves. Try living in SE Asia and finding out what airwave/radio madness is all about.
Until then, you just gotta broadcast, right? Compelled to broadcast! Can't live without broadcasting?
You didn't answer those questions. What is it that compels you to squat on the airwaves over the rest of us? Is it some secret important message? Not hearing enough Black Sabbath? Your message must be heard? What is it? Why do you have to not only flaunt the law, but believe you're better than everyone else and can do it no matter the consequences? Are laws and civility made for other people and not you? Do tell.
So you just HAVE TO broadcast, eh? You're compelled to sully the airwaves with whatever. Can't live without being on the air?
Lots of people waited a long time, and went through the drill, and got licensed, and operate legally. Why can't you? What makes you so special?
They have their house in order, but apparently you can't. That's no rationalization for ruining the airwaves for others.
Spectrum in populated areas across the USA is tight. Even tiny stations have to ensure they don't interfere with others. If you're operating outside the bounds of your license (if you have one), then you do others a great disservice, and add to the increasing madness on the airwaves. I dislike the FCC as much as the next person, but you do both listeners and broadcasters a great dissservice. There is no inherent right to broadcast on licensed bands, the world over. It's not in the UN Charter of Human Rights. You make up your own rules to follow your own ego. Therein is the crux of the piracy problem.
Sloth is easily rewarded. Read about the weekly breaches if you had any questions. We're losing the war. And make no mistake about it: it's a war.
To answer your questions: yes. It needs to be default. Users, civilians, need to know when a web page is sending info across a network that's unencrypted, e.g. as plain text. They don't know the implications.
It would be a wonderful world if key management was simple, and it can be. CASB apps make it simple.
Wait until you find wire-sniffing apps inside your (expletives deleted) routers, or someone that's programmed a router port mirror to a tor listener. Security isn't that tough, but it eludes thousands of organizations. Look at this weeks, largest-ever breach in Florida, where most all of the living population of the United States had their names, addresses, and a few other juicy fields snarfed because of stupidity. The basics should include TLS 1.3.
Yes it changes. Anything valuable still requires paying attention to it. Civilians are clueless, and it's up to the responsible ones to do the job. So we do it. LetsCrypt is an easy method to get a cert and use it. I'm still unsatisfied that WPA3 is worth it, but I like how it works at a glance. In the real world, much stuff is broken and vendors are stupid and in it for this quarter's model, and this quarter's report to Wall Street and little else. Raising the standard from plain text to encrypted is an important step.
HTTPS doesn't require much at all. This writer's observations aren't very good. The https everywhere movement is a bare-minimum. We once were foolish enough to trust others on the web; the concept of zero-trust is where we are today, and for good, even outstanding reasons. That Google champions it is fine, even though Google is a corral of skunks, in my opinion, perhaps the worst robbers of privacy on the net.
In this case, however, https is absolutely the right direction, and twenty-five years of ostensible trust is more than naive, it's freaking treacherous out there, even for hackers with half a brain.
Or mowing a lawn in a white neighborhood while being black in the USA. Or being a journalist in a newsroom when someone has a grudge. Or simply being a kid in school when someone gets a hold of family weapons and slaughters you.
Perhaps going to a wedding in Yemen. Being on a 747 that moves accidentally in to Russian airspace. Or dying in the Arizona desert to escape the brutality of puppet Central American regimes.
Maybe it was black lung disease, asbestos, benzene. Decades of nicotine or alcohol addiction. Something's going to get you, and nihilistic surveys on Italians means only that they escaped these things and ate well and exercised.
You're really lucky. The only competition in my area are boutique markets, a miserable food co-op, farmers markets, and yes, there's a Sam's + Walmart, but they're far away and also lacking any reasonable competitors. I drive to a major city periodically, nearby, and stock up. Around where I live, they've boosted prices 10-50%+ and lowered nothing, with bizarre supply chain mistakes, product shortages, and botched loss leaders.
Wall Street has been punishing Kroger, and with good reason. I applaud them for wanting to be futuristic, but they're otherwise worse than the Three Stooges.
This presumes Kroger survives. It's now caught in the middle of wanting to be a cross between Walmart and Amazon, and they're not doing well at either.
They're caught in the middle of a waning UX experience they botched, along with a curb-side service that's killing them with overhead. They're raised prices far, far beyond inflation, and their customers know it, and are seeking alternatives in droves.
In my area, they're an accidental monopoly, and are milking it for all they're worth. Autonomous vehicles have no chance in my area, logisitcally for at least a dozen years, so all of the hype is for the PR swallowers. That last-few-feet problem is by no means solved, and the robotic reliability and cost effectiveness needed will take another decade. Today, it's science fiction and an attempt to steal mind-share from their perceived competitors, each of whom tells fibs about things like drone delivery, etc.
Don't get fooled by the PR.
Let's add them to the prison database, with a field called: InForLife.
And the AMD fawners are also in a reality distortion field.
Remember that every Ryzen CPU has hideous unpatched PSP bugs in it. Yes, they make good GPUs, but when your CPU can have both hyperthreading attacks coupled to unknown PSP states, it's not worth used toilet paper. That's not to pimp Intel-- they have their own woes.
NVIDIA does no one any favors with this draconian NDA.
Don't be a bullshit artist. You have no idea, and are simply parroting your weenie fears.
Do Chinese orgs become involved in IP theft and espionage? Yes, it's a proven fact. What you didn't conveniently get around to is the question I asked: cite chapter and verse.
You can't, because there isn't any. This is all about three letter agencies miffed that they can't impregnate your smartphone with their own tracking ware, or your router, etc.
Read the info rather than parroting the paranoia memes. This is about reality.
From the article you cite:
"Ms. Lim said the software was intended to help the Chinese client identify junk text messages and calls. She did not identify the company that requested it and said she did not know how many phones were affected. She said phone companies, not Adups, were responsible for disclosing privacy policies to users. âoeAdups was just there to provide functionality that the phone distributor asked for,â she said.
Android phones run software that is developed by Google and distributed free for phone manufacturers to customize. A Google official said the company had told Adups to remove the surveillance ability from phones that run services like the Google Play store. That would not include devices in China, where hundreds of millions of people use Android phones but where Google does not operate because of censorship concerns.
Because Adups has not published a list of affected phones, it is not clear how users can determine whether their phones are vulnerable. âoePeople who have some technical skills could,â Mr. Karygiannis, the Kryptowire vice president, said. âoeBut the average consumer? No.â
The malware was removed. How many malware citations would you like concerning Android in general?
Cite then, chapter and verse, where Huawei has a product that contains code that benefits the Chinese government in a security risk scenario.
No one has. It's bullshit until they do. This is Cisco/Juniper bribery/legislative influence until someone points to actual code that is a security risk or compromise.
Are they backdoor'd? Are their routers loaded with malware? No one can point to a smoking gun. This is about economics, not security, until they can cite actual security problems. This is the same group of legislative nitwits that are slowly killing the ACA, twiddling their thumbs while children are forcibly separated from their parents at borders, who can't decide on a budget, but who are happy to pass massive budget if the word "military" is involved, spend billions on planes that don't fly, and otherwise don't have anything like consumerism in mind.
The Android operating system is a recipe for making Google plentiful amounts of money, with security a nascent side-thought. Google Play is rife with malware, crypto-currency laden apps, and worse.
So when you say, "I suppose you don't fully grasp the threat of backdoored mobile computers", I have to laugh loudly.