“Don’t trust her…”

You don’t, I’m not talking about Intel ME.

That’s the only thing, us the public know about.

You shouldn’t use a computer at all then, your CPU contains Intel and Amd undisclosed backdoor ;)

Having arch has benefits because of more up to date packages but ofc as it happened to you, it introduces more risks

And you know what? Doing updates once a week saved me from updating to this version :)