There's another possibility that I haven't seen mentioned yet. It could be that the developer(s) want to get out anyway. The fact that they've been doing it fo

There's another possibility that I haven't seen mentioned yet. It could be that the developer(s) want to get out anyway. The fact that they've been doing it for so long indicates that they've got some strong feelings about privacy. Perhaps they're staging the whole thing as their way out, to make a political statement, pushing us further to do something about the government's stand on privacy.