Clean Hardware - why it is important?
New world order in cyber security means less trusting to vendors and more transparency, if you choose to do real security. US is banning Huawei and other chinese vendors since they can not be sure what the devices are actually doing. Security researchers can not see inside of those black designs. It is all about politics and war at silicon for control and protection of the information transmitted.
To create really secure solutions where there is no unseen elements and full transparency, we need right politics and security instead of war machines. This means secure computing is a build with full transparency and auditability - not with hidden and unseen software and hardware components. Neither you should use protocols and technologies which are build to serve surveillance and monitoring. Also the solutions must be built in a neutral country where national laws do not force weaken the security - this case in Finland.
We need secure devices - not war machines
And then, what is needed to make computing and IP-traffic secure? National confidential information, resilience of the critical systems, business secrets and resilience of the business processes are all important issues where IP-security and resilience must be done with minimum risks. In many countries privacy will never be more important than national security. This means national security (intelligence) must be able to penetrate to any "secure" system and this is done with forced laws and millions of secret intelligence hacking tools. State level intelligence is also same as industrial espionage and foreign corporations operating for example in Russia, China or where ever might be under state level intel and IPRs or other business critical infomation are in risk. Building business critical processes based on consumer level hardware and software elements is a risky choice.
Single citizens and their privacy will never be more important than national security, so this is the reason why all consumer level operating systems and hardware are also unseen and black design - to enable information control - they are war machines. Trying to make them secure is like playing someone else's game which you have no chance to write the rules of the game, you can only follow the rules.
Privacy will never be more important than national security
So, if security is important for example to a corporation, business critical security must should be done with care, with own rules - not US or China spy elements included.
This is what for example XXLSEC PrivecallTX clean hardware is all about. It is a mobile computing device build with full transparency. No third party black elements - but only full visible source code and hardware components, no firmwares - full auditability for security researchers.
Who controls the information in YOUR devices and business critical processes?