Perhaps the parent commenter doesn't run software without audit. There's no reason to presume defeat -- It's wholly possible to run a modern system using only

Perhaps the parent commenter doesn't run software without audit. There's no reason to presume defeat -- It's wholly possible to run a modern system using only signed builds from trusted sources and compile-from-source from everything else. Certainly, one can't audit every line, but just as certainly, one can establish a train of trusted sources and audit the rest (like this tiny snippet of bash, which is so utterly trivial to verify you might as well polish the habit on it).