and learns how to copy its various characteristics

Because you are a human. Not an immortal corporation.

I am tired of people trying to have iNtElLeCtUaL dIsCuSsIoN about/with entities that would feed you feet first into a wood chipper if it thought it could profit from it.

They monetize it, erase authorship and bastardize the work.

Like if copyright was to protect against anything, it would be this.

Email is never “end to end encrypted” outside of layering something else on like PGP- which you could use with any email service.

Collecting paychecks for being controlled opposition?

DivestOS was also cool while it was developed.

flashed … custom software

Any hints on where one might find details on this?

I haven’t really dug into this, but AirGuards github page claims the app scans periodically and will give you a notification on suspicious results.

Aha. It appears Google’s release of android has that sort of functionality baked in. I wasn’t aware of that.

Still, it seems out of scope for an operating system.

It looks like the EFF recommends some app called “AirGuard”- even over using the built in scanners.

With a term that broad- how is anyone supposed to answer you?

In an app? On a website? Something you suspect the hardware might be doing?