"... Citizen Lab researchers and others suggest that Apple should simply provide an option to disable iMessage entirely." You can do this already. If you "man

"... Citizen Lab researchers and others suggest that Apple should simply provide an option to disable iMessage entirely." You can do this already. If you "manage" your iphone with Apple Configurator you have fine-grained control over every little thing it does. You can disable imessage (and many other things like the app store, etc.)