Paging Linus Torvalds.....
Well, the poster did say friendly, reliable and private.
Reminded me of the response from Torvalds when he was asked if the U.S. government had asked him to put a backdoor in Linux:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gRsgkdfYJ8
I'm not worried about Torvalds himself, but thousands of coders contribute to Linux. It would not be surprising if a few of them worked for the NSA.