@Hyolobrika @mint What's stopping the government from taking everyone to a camp and executing them?

This level of paranoia is what curses the security and privacy communities. No one is rational about it.

Even RISC-V and POWER etc won't save you, because you never know if they have stuff like this built in, either.

"But muh open source hardware!"

Were you in the fabrication plant when they manufactured the chip? There could be hidden APIs or anything.