What do you suggest that we as end-users and Bitcoin enthusiasts do about it? Or anyone else for that matter. Is the solution to create and run our own companies to build chips and components that go into hardware wallets? That's not going to happen. We are not talking about baking pies here. We are stuck with the chips we already have as long as they can be configured for the purpose hardware wallet manufacturers need them for, for the foreseeable future and maybe forever.

But even if there was a better way to produce essential hardware components, who is to say that state actors wouldn't find a way to infiltrate the operation? You will have people working at the company and those people could have made mistakes in their lives. Mistakes which could be exploited by state actors to gain certain knowledge or levels of control of the company.

You give us this, and we will make your problems go away. That's what the State does.