Until the OS vendors wake up and start addressing the elephant in the room - that our operating systems are no longer servicing our needs as users, but serving up our data as consumers - there is no point in any of this political theater.
It is because OS vendors decided to use their technology to gain access to our eyeballs that we are in this mess.
OS vendors deciding not to make encryption a first-tier service provided to their end users, with a user interface abstraction that enlightens and educates instead of obfuscates and minimizes. OS vendors deciding to hide filesystems and shared data from us, because making a UI that makes them usable is hard, and prefer instead to replace it with broken cloud services.
It is because OS vendors are selling ads and eyeballs, not operating systems - which are secondary to the purpose of creating a consumer database.
It is because OS vendors decided to use their technology to gain access to our eyeballs that we are in this mess.
OS vendors deciding not to make encryption a first-tier service provided to their end users, with a user interface abstraction that enlightens and educates instead of obfuscates and minimizes. OS vendors deciding to hide filesystems and shared data from us, because making a UI that makes them usable is hard, and prefer instead to replace it with broken cloud services.
It is because OS vendors are selling ads and eyeballs, not operating systems - which are secondary to the purpose of creating a consumer database.