Information security begins to look like just another psyop to me. They try to keep you using the big tech products and scare you from touching anything smaller or self hosting your data. Privacy oriented products exist but they generally seem to have been designed with surveillance in mind too and they also seem to pool into a couple big players which could easily be coerced to reveal data or insert backdoors in their products.

Then if you switch to open source and self hosting, they will hack your devices with zero day exploits in order to frustrate you and push you back into their cloud products or force you off the internet entirely.

They just want everyone's all data and they will get it. They just prefer you hand it over to them voluntarily by accepting their service policies but they will hack you eventually if you don't.

Linux kernel seems to be full of known zero days these days. I really struggle to find motivation to even keep my devices updated because they will get in anyway. It seems to be more of a reputation thing these days whether you did your diligence or not when you get exposed.