PinePhones on assembly line

[mandavel]

You shouldn't worry about the virus surviving the long trip to your country. Shipping is taking longer than expected and the phones are being sealed in their boxes probably many days before your unpacking. No virus will be on your phone. You should be more worried about your delivery man coming to your door, and coughing on your parcel

Or HW backdoors.

Pine phone is way too small for putting a back door in it we are not worth the target but if pinephone gets to raspberry pi foundation status then it would have to be worried

What do you mean by this? Do I need to throw out my pis?

It depends on your threat model and level of paranoia ;-)

I mean, if there's a backdoor/chinaman living in my pi, that constitutes a valid enough threat for me I think.


...Is there really?