>“How did you accidentally erase your phone?” “I sneezed at the wrong time.” This seems like an exceptionally and unfairly reductionist, close minded and bad f

>“How did you accidentally erase your phone?” “I sneezed at the wrong time.” This seems like an exceptionally and unfairly reductionist, close minded and bad faith reading. I only gave that as one example option, and if you actually consider it it's easy to imagine that there could be restrictions like "You must have Backups on to enable this option". Or it could just not go that far, it wouldn't subtract from the overall feature at all. >I imagine because the number of people compelled to unlock their phone under duress is so small as to be negligible. I don't think that's a safe assumption at all, particularly outside the first world (or even in the first world considering how borders are hardening). Apple like anyone (more then many corps in fact given their startup-type org structure) must prioritize features and build up, and considers new things as the world changes and as their foundations continue to improve. They didn't always have FDE at all. They didn't always have the network lockdown to discourage theft. They didn't have biometric auth, until they did. They spent a lot of time and effort building up their HSM implementations, it wasn't there day 1. They are only now in iOS 12 apparently planning to push out a lock down of the wired port. Etc etc. Finally, you completely ignored how these same measures would fit into another major current public issue and just announced Apple effort: allowing people to get "digital addiction"/information overload under control. There are multiple compelling lines here of which privacy/security are just one angle. [EDIT] - Edited to add an example of the above from just this past WWDC: HN discussion on "iOS 12 introduces new features to reduce interruptions and manage Screen Time": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17230469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17230469 "Views" or however Apple chose to convey/brand it would be a great extension of that. "While I'm doing X, I only want to see Y" with a nice GUI is something that makes intuitive sense, it's how our lives tend to be ordered anyway IRL. GUIs got started by leveraging real world systems and symbols, and while that of course can be overdone and be too restrictive I don't think it's played out yet either at all. Lots of people don't bring work home with them or home to work but rather try to maintain a separation. Why shouldn't our digital devices be capable of automatically supporting that partitioning?