Re: [Trisquel-users] If you could go back in time and talk to your former "owned" self

[dguthrie]

I think CyanogenMod is really the bare minimum, or AOSP built from source,  
and definitely without any Google Apps. For example Google Play Services runs  
as root, and it can access the camera, and microphone etc. That is much more  
of a danger than remotely controlling the device over the mobile network;  
even if the modem firmware was free software it does not solve the problems  
of location tracking at the mobile operator's office.
The bootloaders are so simple that we can basically consider them hardware,  
in that they do the absolute bare minimum of hardware inititalisation. They  
are nothing like as sophisticated as the Intel "management" sofware-spyware.  
On a tablet that runs Replicant it is probably safer than most Intel PCs bar  
computers running Libreboot.