There is another varient of why an update might pose a threat after purchase

Posted Mar 3, 2026 18:48 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: There is another varient of why an update might pose a threat after purchase by brunowolff
Parent article: Garrett: To update blobs or not to update blobs

You'd have to be a pretty high value target for this to happen.

It depends on how easy it is to do and how easy to hide. If it's easy enough both ways, an abusive government could just do it to everyone. They might not extract any data right away, but having the capability whenever they want it without any need for additional steps before they start spying would be handy. Depending on what capabilities they have to automatically analyze the data, they might very well want to spy on everyone all the time just in case.