@HarriettMB @GottaLaff Oh yeah: ALL closed source electronics are presumed backdoored by their makers.
For this reason, for Canada to buy F-35s now is an even worse idea than it would have been for Britain to buy German Messerschmidt bf-109 fighters for the RAF in 1939 instead of building their own.
@LukefromDC @HarriettMB @GottaLaff
American corporations have launched "buying does not mean owning".
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2023-12-08-playstationed-tyler-james-hill-2ba28bfdbefc
https://medium.com/@beatmekanik/if-buying-isnt-owning-then-piracy-isn-t-stealing-0faae966ef04
Businesses don't tell you when a purchase is really just an easily revocable license or about 3rd party surveillance embedded in items.
Remote bricking is in iPhones, Teslas, and John Deere equipment. It's probably in US military equipment too & security is sloppy
@Npars01 @LukefromDC @HarriettMB @GottaLaff
Or Amazon eliminating books from already sold Kindle devices...
https://nypost.com/2025/02/24/shopping/amazon-is-removing-your-right-to-download-kindle-books/
@jlperuyero @Npars01 @HarriettMB @GottaLaff "still the best?" No way. Kindles need to be taken offline so Amazon can't delete content, and all future content torrented to another device.