Getting root or SYSTEM on my machine is no big deal when all the valuable data you can have is already available as my user. Privesc is minor to me, but it depends on your threat model of course. If you&#x27;re in a shared environment without VM isolation, it could be a much bigger issue for you. I don&#x27;t mean to downplay it as you&#x27;re right, kernel mode privesc is bad, it just happens that it&#x27;s a minor effect on my threat model for personal systems.<p>Arbitrary code execution that say, a cloud storage provider could modify would be a far bigger problem. Some of the cryptographic issues are also arguably bigger problems for practical usage. As such, to me, GPG is not nearly as worthy of trust as other, far simpler platforms.<p>&gt; Snowden can use GPG so can you<p>This just doesn&#x27;t make sense as an argument to me - one guy who needed strong encryption used it once therefore you should use it forever and ignore or don&#x27;t try to develop simpler alternatives?<p>1 vulnerability that&#x27;s &quot;worth talking about&quot; per year is enough to make me want to run the other direction, especially on something as sensitive as a password manager.