If I believed in conspiracy theories, I'd say that Google encourages the security theater* industry to make you distrust your devices so they can have all your data.
* There are real security vulnerabilities, and there are end-of-the world articles that try to make you believe the whole world is at risk via some complex exploit that requires the attacker to obtain local root some other way.
* There are real security vulnerabilities, and there are end-of-the world articles that try to make you believe the whole world is at risk via some complex exploit that requires the attacker to obtain local root some other way.