The link between cryptography and self-ownership is often a subtle realization that the average crypto-investor isn’t even aware of.

I've just spent the last couple of weeks trying to secure a windows machine. The fact that by default an extra boot partition is always present seems to me a clue as to their animosity for privacy. Try to install an OS on a thumb drive? Good luck with that. Make sure you toggle removabledevice=true on a Sandisk (and countless others). The only real valid reason for these settings has nothing to do with convenience and everything to do with attempting to make it hard to secure devices against spying.