So... you know, it occurs to me that none of this would be a problem if people understood two things:

A) Computers are tools designed to do whatever the user tells them to do.

B) The original architecture of the Internet assumed a network connecting implicitly trusted users

Stop trying to mess up a perfectly good tool by making it nigh impossible to work with, and redesign a networking/computing infrastructure that doesn't implicitly trust all users as a fundamental assumption.

This type of thing is getting completely out of hand.

If you want security SO badly you are willing to sacrifice billions of potential users freedoms to use their hardware as they see fit, coming up with a second "SECTERNET" architecture should be a price you're willing to pay right?

This pattern of trying to lock a user out of any tier of control of their own machine reeks of the continuing attempts by companies to deprive users of the privilege of ownership.

I realize it may be difficult to see for some, but this is a literal case of the road to Hell being paved with good intentions.

People don't need to be "protected" by building their volition out of the system.