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I agree however having a fully secure stack that you can fully audit is very challenging. I guess you could get pretty far with MIPS but even then you would have to trust the NIC/WLAN and motherboard.

So to a certain degree we're always compromising. Cloudflare is compromising a lot.

How far could you go with using claw via telegram as the only exposed outside connection?

to you

The NSA? Buying from AliExpress. I would expect the CCP.

I believe they were referring to Cloudflare, not the hardware.

But yes, if nation states are part of your threat model, the safest practical way to acquire hardware is probably brick-and-mortar retail, and only after installing a sophisticated home security system, also acquired at retail, and thoroughly sweeping your house for existing bugs once it's installed.

Encrypt the messages with gnupg.