There's some comments being made in the Matrix room for privacytools.io development that I find very worrying.

> User Freedom is generally a bug when it comes to a very secure and private system.

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This was part of an argument for Android being more secure than mobile GNU/Linux. In the 'general' PTIO Matrix room, there were folks arguing that Windows is more secure than GNU/Linux!?! Either a) these folks are trolling, b) they're impressionable teenagers who've been sold a bridge, or c) I'm about to have 20 years worth of assumptions about OS security turned upside down. Hold me, I'm scared.

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It depends how you *exactly* formulate the question. Fully hardened and up-to-date instance of Windows vs Linux? An average instance as given out to a regular irresponsible user? Desktop? Server? Mobile? These comparisons without specific context are idiotic and nothing more than a popular dick contest.

As for Android, it certainly has much better application confinement than typical Linux deb/rpm apps, Linux only catches up with Snaps/Flatpak/systemd now.

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