>>The dream I have is someone making a phone that is purpose-built to be secure against state actors
I just don't see how anyone could build such a thing. State level actors have the tools necessary to force you or your company to build in any backdoor they want, and prevent you from ever talking about it to anyone. US certainly does, and could just force apple to add a backdoor to this lockdown mode and apple could never even hint at its existence under legal threat.
Not just the US, so do the EU, any five eyes country, China, Korea, Taiwan. The US doesn't have a hegemony on backdoors so lets always remember that and not exclude others or act like it's an island of corruption in a world of benevolent state actors.
I don't think Korea or Australia have the power to force Apple to build backdoors into their products. Maybe they'd get to use the US one if they asked nicely.
Looking forwards to when Apple manufactures all iPhones in Sweden. Or did you mean the US, which remains stubbornly overseas and scary to the majority of the world’s population?
I don't recall getting a vote. Do you even know of a single device made in a relatively "benevolent" state actor country? I would love to know. I would love it if there was a provably secure device manufactured in some remote Pacific island that has never projected itself as a malevolent international threat like 100% of the first world countries have.
I just don't see how anyone could build such a thing. State level actors have the tools necessary to force you or your company to build in any backdoor they want, and prevent you from ever talking about it to anyone. US certainly does, and could just force apple to add a backdoor to this lockdown mode and apple could never even hint at its existence under legal threat.