Bruce's comment is quite bizarre. Here is a slightly better quote from him in 2013: "Be suspicious of commercial encryption software, especially from large ven

Bruce's comment is quite bizarre. Here is a slightly better quote from him in 2013: "Be suspicious of commercial encryption software, especially from large vendors. My guess is that most encryption products from large US companies have NSA-friendly back doors, and many foreign ones probably do as well. It's prudent to assume that foreign products also have foreign-installed backdoors. Closed-source software is easier for the NSA to backdoor than open-source software. Systems relying on master secrets are vulnerable to the NSA, through either legal or more clandestine means." The article would have been far better if they only included Microsoft's answers and ended the piece with the same line: "Whatever you choose, if trusting a proprietary operating system not to be malicious doesn’t fit your threat model, maybe it’s time to switch to Linux."