@awethon Yes you are clearly aware, and also clearly prefer the national interest of USA over the national interest of China. It's like you local mafia going after a random robber and you go "yes great robbery is so wrong, good job mafia! What, you rob every business on the block left and right? Of course you must protect your own interests I understand."

I don't understand anything you wrote about wordplay. How does any of that relate to toolchain bugs and hardware backdoors I mentioned. I'll like watch you audit the code and build all software that you use, including the toolchains, accounting for the uncountable list of bugs in them and potential hardware bug doors, or find a friend that would do it for you.

- but I can produce the same binarryyyy ToT
- oh yes the same buggy leaky binary, sure, good for you

There is no trust involved, when you buy a car you know it's not going to randomly explode, not because you oh so trust the manufacturer, who's your good old friend, but because if it did, it would be driven out of the market, because competition, however small, exists. Now you are watching a monopolist try to elminate competition and applauding, cause you just happen to like the name of the brand.