&gt; <i>End-to-end encryption is useless without endpoint security</i><p>No, not in a practical sense. Securing data in transit and at rest drgrades the value of breaking endpoint security, and it degrades the value of massive internet snooping.<p>Breaking endpoint security, one machine at a time, and exfiltrating data, is vastly riskier than hoovering it up from the backbone. It is more likely to be noticed, and the exfiltration traced. It doesn&#x27;t scale well.<p>Endpoint security sucks now, but if people, governments, and enterprises find out data being exfiltrated from their machines, the demand for secure hardware will increase.