Is There a Hardware Back Door?

The risk of a hardware back door is always present in essentially every piece of hardware you can purchase. Because open source hardware has not really taken off, it's not really a thing for most types of devices. There are so many other ways to collect data that google knows that 99% of the users of their pickl devices are just amusing their o s. So if they really wanted to do something malicious, it would be infinitely easier to just put something malicious in the code that they ship and not have to worry about putting in a Hardware Back Door. The real threat is extremely minimal to non- existent If you do have a very advanced model where you're worried about Google targeting you,