wow. in the middle of reading that, i realized that this is a watershed moment. why would apple go back on their painstakingly crafted image and reputation of being staunchly pro privacy? its not for the sake of the children (lol). no, something happened that has changed the equation for apple. some kind of decisive shift has occurred. maybe apple has finally caved in to the chinese market, like everyone else in the US, and is now making their devices compatible with chinese surveillance. or maybe the US government has finally managed to force apple to crack open its shell of encryption in the name of a western flavored surveillance. but either way, i think it is a watershed moment because securing privacy will from this moment onward be a fringe occupation in the west. unless a competitor rises up -- but thats impossible because there arent enough people who care about privacy to sustain a privacy company. thats the real reason why privacy has died today.

if you really want to save the children, why not build the scanning into safari? scan the whole phone! just scan it all. its really no different than what they are doing. its not like they would have to cross the rubicon to do it, not anymore anyway.

and also i think its interesting how kids will adjust to this. i think a lot of kids wont hear about this and will find themselves caught up in a child porn case.

im so proud of the responses that people seem to generally have. it makes me feel confident in the future of the world.

isnt there some device to encrypt and decrypt messages with a separate device that couples to your phone? like a device fit into a case and that has a keyboard interface built into a screen protector with indium oxide electrodes.