I don’t mean to be short, but your views demonstrate completely the bizarre myopia of the “hacker community” (for lack of a better term.)

Everyday users experience massive troubles with security issues, and incur painful losses, at the hands of criminals and black hats! I have no awareness of a major corporation “going rogue” and deliberately harming their users, ever.

The incentive structure is the opposite: companies generally try to help their customers.

That’s not to say they don’t fuck up, particularly when the incentive structure gets “skewed.”

To see that there is actually an inverse correlation between personal control of software and security, just observe the crypto currency space.

The losses suffered by users from bugs, security failures, and hacking are comically large.