Thats true, but that sadly won’t help against a state forcing a company to put these things into the silicon. Not saying they do rn, but its a real possibility.
I mean can’t they just audit a version that doesn’t have a backdoor/snoops. Verifying against silicon is probably very hard.
How do you want to verify a RISC core not doing something funny?
How do you want to federate Petabytes or even Exabytes of content? And your second sentence leads to a monolithic instance.
They could make it the steam hardware without controller, screen and battery.
Thats true, but that sadly won’t help against a state forcing a company to put these things into the silicon. Not saying they do rn, but its a real possibility.