As an embedded C engineer, my response, "It ain't easy."I obviously trust it over proprietary software like windows to certain extent.
I rely on the security professionals both at large and within my company that the software we use is safe and doing what it supposed to do.
I also know a tiny bit of what to look for in my firewall logs and network monitors like wire shark to check for rogue connections.
Despite what John Kerry and this administrations claims that people doing labor jobs can simply change jobs and learn to code is utter BS, not everyone has the capacity to do it or wants to.
but anyhow it’s just my own opinion that I don’t think passwords should be handled by anyone or anything but myself.