If ChromeOS weren't a security nightmare (Google have complete access to one's system), I'd recommend it in a flash to non-technical folks.
How long will it be until organisations such as Google & Mozilla realise that people cannot trust them? And how long will it be until people realise that they cannot trust organisations such as Google & Mozilla?
Well, you can't trust anyone 100% but as organizations go I don't have much problem with Google having access. There was a recent report of 1 in 10 people in England and Wales being victims of cybercrime last year including 2.5m incidents of bank and credit card fraud. That's what I'd worry about which Google are probably better at blocking than most.
> Do you have any tin foil left so the rest of us can make hats too?
That's not an argument; it's an insult.
Do you have any actual rebuttal to my statement that trusting Google means trusting 'every Google executive, manager, employee & contractor, as well as every agency of every government Google is beholden to,' or a rebuttal to my implication that this is unwise?
Yes: Google has internal controls on information access, and government access is subject to legal processes, and governments don't automatically share all information between agencies. Your argument is hyperbole.
How long will it be until organisations such as Google & Mozilla realise that people cannot trust them? And how long will it be until people realise that they cannot trust organisations such as Google & Mozilla?