I just want to check to see if you read the GP all the way through to the final sentence. You're tearing it apart piece by piece as though the author was making those claims, but you neglected to quote the part of the post that revealed their true opinion.

> The minimum required trust is tiny (basically you yourself), but of course as Schneier points out the amount of trust involved in practise isn't nearly as low, and for many people the failure cases are much worse