So, the heart of the problem here is this: Do you want security or do you want a system so easy to use that the AOL crowd can do it? What I mean by that comment is that when AOL came out, it was ridiculously easy for anyone to use. Most systems today still follow that standard (Windows, most electronic devices like wifi routers, IOT devices for the mass market, etc), and inherently are very poorly secured. How many times a week does slashdot post a news article about a new exploit for something because of unchanged default passwords, or backdoors left open, etc? While it is easy for someone like the majority of the slashdot crowd to encrypt a file with openssl or pgp, neither of these methods are supported natively to Windows (which sadly rules the sheeple market). Just check out https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2019%2F04%2F22... for proof.

How many people here flamed Canonical 3 years ago when their developers ditched working on Gnome3 in favor of Unity for this very reason? Are you now going to flame Intel because their developers are saying the same thing? I should also point out that this is a prime example of how open source development works; if you don't like what one group has to offer, switch to something else. It is the same reason GTK/Gnome came into existance, the developers didn't like QT (for licensing reasons). It is the same reason Cinnamon and Mate exist. It is the same reason MariaDB exists. And it is the same reason Mir/Unity exists. Note that I do not work for Canonical, but I do work with ALL of the major commercial distributions daily. For ease of installation and deployment to my customers and users, I can't beat Ubuntu.

Don't need any nefarious remote flushing going on.

Back in 2007 I was writing a short biography for a college writing class about my high school years, and referenced a story I had written in 1984 on my old Atari 800. My teacher was intrigued, so I pulled the boxes of Atari stuff out of the basement and found the 5 1/4 floppy that had the file. I then used my Atari Floppy disk hooked up to my PC with the PC Xformer cable and an emulater that would read the disks and save them as image files. Once the files were saved, I pulled the text out using dd. Very complex setup for 5 pages of text, but was fun to do. It was also interesting to see how my writing style has changed in ~23 years.

To real life Cyberball. I'd pay to see that in an arena.