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I'll start with a real easy one:

Sanjay Mehrotra

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CEO of Micron Technology

Photos are public headshots from 2026 SEC filing and may not be up-to-date. For example, in my opinion, Sanjay is lookin' old as hell in his Wikipedia pic. I get it, wanna look young.

Position held from May 8, 2017 to at least the time of this post.

It's worth understanding a little more, such as that

Mr. Mehrotra holds a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program

The executive offices location of Micron is publicly listed as

8000 South Federal Way, Boise, Idaho 83716-9632

These offices can be contacted, and their publicly listed

telephone number is (208) 368-4000

You are able to rightfully use the the names of public figures, the executive offices location, and the executive offices telephone number to more directly express your sincere beliefs on their practices, if you'd like. If the phone number changes, remember that a mailing address is much more permanent and purpose-built. Also, mailing a letter is a lot less expensive than you might think if you choose the slowest option, and it's not hard to do, and it can be done anonymously if you fear potential persecution for legally expressing your opinions and beliefs. I mean, you've got no rush - I don't think the Micron executives feel that their business is in any kind of financial danger right now. But if you've got the spirit, maybe try it!

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To understand the privacy aspects you also need to understand some recent history and current realities. Please bear with me!

Micron officially announced its "Exit from Crucial Consumer business" on December 3, 2025.

Noting that they

... continue to support the sale of Micron-branded enterprise products to commercial channel customers globally.

Micron's Sep 30, 2026 press release reported fiscal year 2025 net income of $37.378 billion and in 2026, $133.188 billion. (millions from source converted to billions for readability) An increase of 256.327% from fiscal year '25 to' 26.

Micron says, in their 2026 annual SEC filing

We depend on a highly educated and experienced workforce

[Alternate source here, see same 10-K filing on 10/09/2026]

But I wonder if their dependence on educated and experienced workers is ironic considering the blow to average consumers and their ability to afford memory for computers that they can own at home, and learn from, and grow from. I wonder that.

In that same SEC filing they state that they

... seek to build collaborative relationships with our customers to understand their unique opportunities and challenges

But with them being a "global leader" which "powers AI and compute intensive from cloud to edge" in the enterprise market, what are the consequences of this "collaboration"? I wonder that.

The same SEC report has some interesting data regarding their Cloud Memory Business Unit (CMBU), such as this statement:

Overall cloud growth continues to be driven by strong demand for generative AI capabilities by enterprises across multiple verticals, sovereign AI, and the shift of both infrastructure and workloads from on-premises to the cloud. Cloud servers supporting AI and data-centric workloads require significantly increasing quantities of DRAM, including HBM, and NAND as the task of turning data into insight becomes increasingly memory-centric.

That same report notes that their CMBU had an increase from $13.53 billion revenue in 2025 to $43.09 billion revenue in 2026.

Their other products and markets are also included in the report if you'd like to take a look.

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Their explicit statement on cloud demand and massive FY-26 jump in revenue in their CMBU, combined with no consumer facing business, means that under Sanjay Mehrotra's leadership - Micron has, and is, actively demonstrating that they do not have the same regard for personal computing and local ownership in comparison to their past business practices.

As one of the largest DRAM manufacturers, supplying 21% of the global market share as of July 27, 2026, the decision for Micron's shift to enterprise and abandonment of the consumer market, combined with their clear investment and return in the cloud memory and AI business - well, I think that Micron Technology's CEO, Sanjay Mehrotra, is clear in his messaging of how he wants to steer the ship, so to speak.

Us 'consumers' , who may be customers of Micron's enterprise customers which have clearly massively increased demand for cloud compute - have less options for our RAM needs. By the beautiful logic of supply and demand, we can see how RAM prices have skyrocketed. There is less consumer supply, costs are higher, and as a result people will find personal computing less and less affordable or attainable, forcing either the transition to cloud solutions, or an exit from the tech space altogether. The latter is not feasible in today's world where the internet is a defacto commodity.

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While Micron's CEO, Sanjay Mehrotra (pictured left, the very very short man next to the presumably average sized man from China, source: globaltimes.cn.), is not alone in his decisions and subsequent consequences, his leadership is undoubtedly directly responsible for a measurable decrease in the attainability of local computing, and as naturally follows, the attainability of privacy. Also, please note that the average Male height in China is 169.6 cm (5 ft 7 in)

Please understand that executive decisions may fall on any of the other publicly listed and photographed executive officers, last confirmed accurate on October 9, 2026, including:

• Scott R. Allen

Corporate Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer

• April S. Arnzen

Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer

• Manish Bhatia

President and Chief Operating Officer

• Michael D. Cordano

Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales

• Scott J. DeBoer

President and Chief Technology and Products Officer

• Mark J. Murphy

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

• Michael Ray

Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

Each executive officer has their own role aside from the chief executive position.

Please note these facts and my opinions are not related to Micron Technology being part of a price-fixing cartel in the past.

As the latest earnings report from fiscal year 2026 notes, their non-public information is posted in a variety of places, all of which I am not able to nor would I attempt to access and share. The info I've listed is all public, freely available, and from direct or legal or reputable sources. Dollar amounts are in USD, matching the report. Corrections welcome. Comments also welcome. Thoughts and opinions are my own. Facts and quotes (both in full and abbreviated) come from the sources I mentioned.

Fun fact: SEC filings for American companies are online and ready for you to check out! There's lots of info these companies would rather keep private, and largely relegate to legally required, long, dry, though public documents. But sometimes you learn something or verify an assumption that would never otherwise be mentioned.

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So, what about you guys!?

Edit: oh hey look at that, here's a video that just came out on much of the same topic! (sorry for the YT link)

If you're a GrapheneOS user, it's worth being aware of the consequences of revealing device identifiers, which give away privileged device info, effectively fingerprinting your phone permanently. Much of this is tied to RCS as it stands today.

Firstly, whatever SMS/MMS/RCS app you set as your messaging app will have access to

READ_PRIVILEGED_PHONE_STATE

which the official FAQ notes, regarding the messaging app, is a

...special case that's given access to certain device identifiers including the IMEI. This is normally the GrapheneOS fork of AOSP Messaging but can be changed to another app by the user.

This means that even if you change your messaging app for one moment with network access, that app can (and will) utilize that IMEI and any other identifiers that the privileged state allows. This is a necessary evil of carrier-based messaging.

Secondly, if you've settled on using RCS, which is currently only implemented through Google Messages, it's worth noting, as GrapheneOS devs say,

Some carriers use a verification method (GSMA TS.43) that requires Google Play services to have the permission to do ICC authentication with device identifiers.

This is done by visiting your settings, apps, Sandboxed Google Play, Play services special permissions, and enabling 'Allow ICC authentication with device identifiers'.

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Currently, it's obvious that if you're using Google Messages, your only immediate RCS option, that enabling this toggle is not really leaking much additional data since you already spread 'dem cheeks to Google. Again, your carrier already knows a bunch, but that's the price of using modern telecommunications infrastructure. However, by enabling this setting, Google Play Services is also allowed the privileged state mentioned earlier.

If you must have RCS right away, then you're SOL anyhow. But in the future, GrapheneOS devs are planning to attempt their own RCS implementation that doesn't rely on Google (sorry I am not linking to the direct Twitter post). If/when this comes to fruition, RCS will be possible without relying on the infrastructure Google has so thoughtfully trapped us with set up for us.

If you can wait for that day to come, then you should wait for that day to come. Because if you really want to keep Google from having privileged info, you need to know that allowing it now and disabling it later is in part, though largely pointless because the consequences of the decision you made prior are permanent, in relation to identifiers leaked, so long as any of those identifiers remain the same.

Additionally, Google Play Services can communicate with other apps even without networking via an Android feature called inter-process communication (IPC). This allows apps designed for it to communicate directly with each other, in this case Google-to-Google. This includes apps that utilize tracking/analytics through things such as Firebase Analytics. That's a LOT of non-FOSS apps.

Though it's not proven what exactly Play Services exfiltrates via IPC, you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that there may be foul-play involved. Maybe you have an app that is made by Google or uses Firebase that you keep network off for - if you allowed Play Services those ICC permissions, you are, at least in theory, creating a pathway to leak data you may not have intended.

There are a million more ways you might be giving valuable and private and identifying data to Google, but this is one I see often overlooked because RCS is the easiest way to enable encrypted communications with those who don't use any purpose built app such as Molly/Signal or SimpleX Chat etc.

For those wondering, "can't we configure IPC like with other permissions?", great question, you might wanna check out this forum discussion (amongst many others). For those wondering why RCS is so seemingly Google-dependant, check out the wiki page on RCS for some fun history on how Google fucks with everything and everyone on earth.

Caveats:

• If you're running older Android =<10, check the FAQ more cause idk much about that.
• There are things such as Openbubbles that serve a specific niche with different risks/benefits that I'm not covering here. The tech behind it is also very different.
• I'm not a GrapheneOS dev, don't take my word for things, check out the official forums and Github for more in-depth discussion.
• Things can change quickly and unpredictably. Make sure the reality still matches as of this post's date.
• Your decision to use Google on GrapheneOS is not wrong, and it's up to the individual to determine their boundaries or what they deem acceptable.
• Google IPC data exfilfration is not proven fact, maybe a heart still beats within the company somewhere, lol.
• Google doesn't literally fuck everything and everyone on Earth - yet.
• There's subtleties lost here and details simplified, but the overall point is not lost. If you're interested you should read more about it all, it's fun to learn about!

Edit: you're all lovely and I want to respond to everyone cause that's how I roll, but I don't want to cannibalize the discussion. So if I don't respond, you can have my up vote in lieu of that. Ty all for your comments!

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