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Meanwhile if you load Baofeng software from a few years ago antivirus software today will ping out. It never used to ping out, such is the nature of zero days.
Meanwhile Israel has been selling weapons grade hacking technology for decades, they've been directly linked to the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi as well as the Mexican cartels.
Meanwhile Argentina happens to be the hub for zero day exploits, with a bunch of hackers inventing their own shit and selling directly to state actors or whoever will pay.
The only way you can remain secure is to regularly install a fresh OS. Change my mind.
Sure. Even regularly installing a new OS doesn't necessarily keep you secure if someone wanted to discreetly install malware on your device. In addition to firmware-level rootkits that re-install themselves on fresh OSs (even platform-agnostic ones), it's possible that someone might interdict whatever hardware is bought and implant it with additional small hardware that compromises it in some way.
They don't even need to work that hard, just compromise the ME/PSP and do whatever.