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> We can and must demand free verifiably-secure hardware and software

I agree 100%. Open source software + hardware + FIRMWARE must be part of any long-term solution. "Long-term" because short-term, governments won't let that happen (they will always work with/help corporations to keep circulating products with backdoors in proprietary/closed-source firmware).

I think this is a fine long term goal, but the pragmatic place to make progress in the short term is politics.

I know much of the reaction to that is going to be cynicism about what is possible there, but I'm pretty sure that cynicism is one of the bigger stumbling blocks.

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