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Yes this is a real problem. Being "paranoid about privacy" is not a yes/no decision for people to make. Different people have different things they would like to be private about and to different degrees. Some people may not want it to be possible for anyone to ever know anything at all about them. Those people don't use phones of any nature. Maybe some other people only trust phones that they build themselves. Other people are willing to trust open source software and the communities around it. Some people only care about making dragnet surveillance difficult or expensive. Others need perfect assurance of privacy because their lives are in danger. Others don't care if anyone listens to their calls.

But what you are saying is like looking at football players, seeing that they could still get hurt when they wear lots of padding, and deciding either no one should play the game or we should all play inside giant airbags.