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So many ways that this can be unpacked. Bravo!
BGR is simply virtue signalling against the feds when it comes to comparing the "virus of the day" with a hypothetical data recovery method that would only be available in an offline forensics lab setting with no viral attributes.
WannaCry is much more Microsoft's fault than the feds or Wikileaks.
If the main objective is to prevent other apps in user space from reading unlocked private keys, why not just ssh/sudo into a secondary account where the default shell is set to an ssh client?
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/19233-hacker-news-comment-...
However forced ranking, deep linking, and previous ban evasion are all real concerns for Google's reputation as a corporate friendly gatekeeper.