DeletedUser237
Was this really an ‘aggresive’ type of response?
No, it was not, that’s why I wrote, ‘perceived as aggressive’. The ‘nonsense people parrot’ part, however, might have been unpleasant to read. My subject was more about justifying aggressiveness on the forum, and for so little at that, which was not your doing.
As for what Google might do or not, I don’t want to speak at length here, and getting accused of dabbling in conjecture, which is not appreciated by the GOS team, and with good reason. I’ll just say the following:
I don’t fall for the American Dream garage start-up success story narrative; some people seem to overlook the deep ties between Google and the DoD that exist, and the budget of the latter.
The book When Google Met WikiLeaks by Assange might be enlightening for some.
That doesn’t mean I don’t trust my GOS device, but should, for instance, Russian or Chinese high-profile targets trust any kind of Pixel devices? They probably have good reasons not to, besides pride.
A Russian dissident may take advantage of using a Pixel device; a GRU operative being actively targeted by the U.S., probably not so much. Where are the threat model people when we need them?
I’m not saying Pixel devices are different when it comes to high-profile targets: I acknowledge that the U.S. have other capabilities when it comes to non-Google devices or non-U.S. devices, of course.
But those are out of scope considerations.