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Open source is not a universal panacea though - for example in Android of certain parts of the OS being closed source- the parts provided by Qualcomm to interface with their chips etc.
No use 90% of the stack being open to inspection but the remaining 10% potentially being written in consultation with the NSA.
Mikko Hyponnen tweeted the other day that his iPhone cheerfully told him that it's root certificate was from the US Govt- a government with which he had nothing to do, but making it clear that nothing done on the device should be considered in anyway private.
Ironically they're more open about the lack of privacy than the open source OS, in a way.
It's all a bit shit, really.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mikko/status/327170802673917952/photo/1