I recognize both your tone and your sarcasm tag, but having more closed source and proprietary technology actually would reduce the risk of government snooping,

I recognize both your tone and your sarcasm tag, but having more closed source and proprietary technology actually would reduce the risk of government snooping, at least once there's enough of it. Paying smart, educated people to do this stuff is only feasible because it scales, and it only scales because there's so much standardization. It's the same concept as "Macs don't get viruses" (at least back in the early 2000s when their market share was much smaller.)