Nope. I was making my point using a reflection of the language in the original blog post, where the author was talking about the free software "home" being free

Nope. I was making my point using a reflection of the language in the original blog post, where the author was talking about the free software "home" being free of surveillance. This was apparently different from the "home" of Apple and Facebook etc, where the user is buying into surveillance. My point is that it isn't, there are still vectors into installations made of free software. Free software being out in the open makes analyzing it to find zero days easier, but also can be analyzed as a group. some companies, Google being a very notable case, are quite public about their efforts to evaluate and improve free software. So no, your distilled point is not the one I was trying to make.