From this time last year. AI is much further along now. We been spectating.
One ray of hope is in the linked video from the Gen's Telegram on Rumble is at the end, when Eric calls his dad, the screen of his phone is visible for a couple of seconds. I capped it.
The backdoors are built-in at the CPU hardware level and in very low level machine code like the initiation code for the harddrives, etc.. If a Tier 1 wants to get in your machine, they can.
VPNs and good opsec and digital hygiene are still very worthwhile for the far more numerous bad actors from Tier 2 on down.