Google Pixel phones, no evidence to say with certainty their hardware isn't suspect

I don't know how it would work, or whether you could easily detect it through software or confirm it with something like wireshark (data uploads could be hid amongst a barrage of traffic when you use the web however), but the Google Pixel phones could utilise hardware as a means to survive a ROM flash (Like Intel ME, it's snug in the CPU as its own tiny OS.), and still farm data and upload it amongst normal network traffic, or …

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