I've used them for many years and had several complex support interactions with them.

Their customer service policy is very "API-like" in that you get exactly the t&c you paid for and nothing more. Hand-holding and soothing noises are not included in the t&c. They fuck up you get a refund, you fuck up they'll tell you exactly that. Outside that they're very casual relaxed humans to communicate with.

I find that far more trustworthy (in the mathematical sense) than a "slick" twitter feed.

Politness does not imply trustworthiness.

If the chips are tightly integrated propriatary black boxes like on most hw then from my POV its _physcially_ possible for them to read anything regardless of what the designers/industry say because I do not trust them.

You trust your sources that say "..simply false that the cellular modem can access arbitrary data in RAM". I don't. Even if you claim to have personally designed, fabbed and shipped that silicon I still have no practical reason to trust.

General design failures/bugs from assumed acting-in-good-faith silicon/sw designers vs not-acting-in-good-faith silicon/sw designers.

Assuming the radio's are the primary threat to privacy then I'd prefer a design from a privacy activist company who explicityly designs the hw so that the less trustable parts are forced behind physcial and defined interface "firewalls".

at least we've had ad blockser on browsers that work well up to now

the tracking of web ads obviously vastly overshadows what happened with TV.

they obviously want the best of both worlds "avoidable ads" and "extreme tracking"

why not treat data the same way ?

yes it will be very disruptive to some businesses. i hope.

there comes a point when the content is just not worth it

doesnt scale obviously

we're headed back to the "golden age" of TV advertising except via http instead of radio waves/cable

the combination of "dumb screen(TV?) as interface" with "any/all content* you want (cheaper with ads)" will be very attractive to the 99% of humans who dont want to think about computing

is widespread personal physical ownership and control of general purpose computing a feature of the future ?

what laws do we need to think about to prevent harm that may cause ?

*text/radio/TV/movie/social/web/games/etc

i dislike ads as 99.??% are effectively automated insults.

"buy this or you are lessened"

over my lifetime the ad industry has offered insult to me perhaps 100s of 1000s of times.

On a practical basis i cannot evaluate the jurisprudence involved and I would assume the number of people who credibly can is very small, especially in the context of "secret courts for national security reasons".

A useful test would be if any of those few had demonstrated a personal risk using this as a defense and succeeded. The rest of us can only guess the risk based on the reputation of the entites involved.

A practical problem I see is that even if everyone used this everywhere, an attacker has no reason to believe any forceably decrypted plaintext.

The disclosing party would have had to beforehand craft a fake plaintext that was credible enough to trick an alerted attacker based on its contents alone.

I submit that warrant canaries are at best legally and politically naive virtue signalling and at worst deliberate obfuscation of the actual threat model.

I'm no expert but I vaguely recall hearing from non-trivial sources that this is a common but inaccurate misrepresentation as regards their "intent". They are not "toying" with their hunting target so much as obeying a powerful instinct to be careful to kill it with the minimum risk of infection from getting even a small scratch in return from a target that is "playing dead" as a defense/evade tactic.

care to elaborate your pov please ?