Well, this was sobering. So, now what? "We the people have to get together and use our collective power if the world is going to be unfucked" is not exactly limited to the world of computing. We aren't getting our collective shit together as we face possible extinction via being cooked. We can't get our shit together to stop 0,0001% of the population raping the majority with a huge stick made out of money and interest and corruption. Will we get our shit together to do something about 0days and people hijacking our webcams? Somehow I doubt it. So, if collective action isn't going to happen and individual security is doomed by crappy libraries and useless tools - well, everyone just get Win10, make their password "12345" and hope the guy just using our PC to DDOS an online casino wins the fight over our box?
yep, pretty much. the only thing the security industry can do at this point is to make hacking more and more difficult and to put more and more restrictions on what the user can install on their devices. eventually we get to the point where you need a fancy education to understand software exploitation, and at that point the Powers That Be have control over everything because they're the only ones with easy access to higher education. and then the revolution comes and we smash up all the machines.