No, I think I have a low opinion about my abilities - I need a complete picture and all the help I can get to understand anything at all.
But yes, I agree that it's not as simple as my original comment made it out to be - I definitely failed to fully acknowledge that most/some of the critical parts are open source and secured, but I think the incompleteness in any outside understanding (such as my own) is a major factor in the options Google could present about security.
But yes, I agree that it's not as simple as my original comment made it out to be - I definitely failed to fully acknowledge that most/some of the critical parts are open source and secured, but I think the incompleteness in any outside understanding (such as my own) is a major factor in the options Google could present about security.