It's a good debate to have, but I don't think it "misses the point". Securing a system or the data going through it needs many things. If you secure the system

It's a good debate to have, but I don't think it "misses the point". Securing a system or the data going through it needs many things. If you secure the system locally, but send the data to the user in plain text, through cables that NSA gets full access to, then that's not good either, is it? At least compromising the systems means they have to actually hack it, and not just let the data come to them.