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True, I’m very interested in understanding how secure the open source alternative is, I struggle to believe it is as secure as there are so many layers, and the surface seems much bigger. I guess if you are worried about being hacked then the open source method is likely less secure, but if you are worried about being monitored then Apple is more of a risk as you don’t know what goes on behind their servers etc.


My general stance is that the fewer things I need to trust the more secure I am. That goes for services, companies, dependencies, programs, etc.

Besides that there is also all of the transitive points, like what does apple trust? What does google trust?

I'm not sure if I'm more secure, but I am sure that I have less people influencing my security and that I have a reasonable way to validate them.




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