1. Terrorism and trafficking of children will win the moral high ground.
2. App stores will be forced locale by locale to conform to these policies.
3. Most people will not notice or care.
4. This will be used by N-Eyes and totalitarian governments to quash dissent.
5. Meanwhile the tech crowd will create alternate app distribution mechanisms allowing those who care to communicate securely.
6. Those secure methods will be used by people with the most to lose. (e.g. the drivers of point 1)
Given this predictable series of events I see the primary question as: How do we prevent (4)? How can we make people secure by default again and make adoption easy in the face of app store capture.
1. Terrorism and trafficking of children will win the moral high ground.
2. App stores will be forced locale by locale to conform to these policies.
3. Most people will not notice or care.
4. This will be used by N-Eyes and totalitarian governments to quash dissent.
5. Meanwhile the tech crowd will create alternate app distribution mechanisms allowing those who care to communicate securely.
6. Those secure methods will be used by people with the most to lose. (e.g. the drivers of point 1)
Given this predictable series of events I see the primary question as: How do we prevent (4)? How can we make people secure by default again and make adoption easy in the face of app store capture.