Hey, all I said was it's more dangerous to host a masternode than a regular node, for fear of centralization, getting compromised by gov or other authority, having large amounts of nodes shut down by an attacker which would "end" the anonymity, etc
Have a listen to this commentary where he makes the distinction between "politically decentralised" and "architecturally decentralised". Two completely different things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zgkmQ-jQJHk#t=255It doesn't matter where you host the node - it's how it performs its role within the network's function that defines it 'decentralised'.
Furthermore, you don't 'take over' masternodes by gaining access to the machines they run on. In a decentralised network, the whole damn world has access to them - you don't need to be Amazon or even the NSA. In Dash, it's access to the money supply that you need to take control (the same as with any other crypto) because that's what collateralises those nodes.