Exactly. And that you can't trust a company who wants to do business with the CIA. I know I'm getting downvoted for this - thanks guys ;)
Yeah distrusting the CIA & NSA is a real counter-cultural thing here at Hacker News. You're more likely getting downvoted for talking about getting downvoted.
As if the hardware / software stack you'd 'host it yourself on' is secure?
This needs more attention. Can we even trust OpenBSD, much less Linux? There's so much code in there. How could we possibly know that they're safe? That packets aren't a little bigger than they need to be? We'll just have to live with it I guess.
Hard to tell. It's for sure easier to compromise/court slapp a few rather large coorporations than to penetrate thousands or millions of self-hosted instances.