If they receive a notice that there is illegal content, that it should be removed and then refuse to cooperate?

Then yes, e2e is not under fire, not cooperating in moderating/Removing known criminals is

He was not arrested for privacy, there are huge open groups on Telegram for piracy, csam and cyber criminals.

These groups are not encrypted, everything is stored in plain text on their servers. He is being arrested for not removing/moderating this content.

I actually have a server for my other needs and HA Green. Mostly since I want to run the mission critical stuff for my home on a different machine, this way if something were to go wrong with my home server it’d still keep working.

I should add that bigger esphome projects (with custom components) take up to 5 minutes to compile. But that honestly isn’t too bad.

At what point do you just go for Home Assistant green? It’s still cheaper, yes it has less ram but also consumes less power.

Problem is that some companies double dip. Pay for the service and have your data sold.

Honestly, for closed source software the POCs are also immediately available. Lots of threat actors just use patch diffing.

These days vulnerabilities are at times also patched with other non-related commits to conceal what exactly has changed.