We as users.
Of course, but I didn’t mean reverse-engineering, but external test, observing the network, bandwidth usage and such. The point being, if it does something, it should emit/receive something that could be observed externally from the computer.
Yes that would be fantastic, but I don’t think it’ll change my point so much, it’s easier and more common to leverage software to spy/hack someone that it is to leverage hardware.
And you should ! And as the developers (and I think they do too, since they continue updating QubesOS).
Moving to open-hardware is a great idea, and I’ll look forward to it.
Depend where you draw the line. I also try to review my hardware and it took me years to finally choose something I was comfortable with, because this all there is. In my opinion, and according to my threat level, the software and hardware I choose fit my criteria of functionalities and trust.
This sums it up for me, a reasonably secure system on a somewhat unreasonable hardware is better than none at all.