for a while, Yankee worked

The growing movement of neo-confederates and white nationalists and WW2 revisionists probably don't like being called yankees

Yankee was created as a highly dehumanizing and derisive slur for Americans.

Have an optional crypto stamp and prioritize it, generating extra income for postal services

Perhaps the 350000 chemicals we’ve introduced into our environment are hurting children. Don’t tell the corporations though.

I would imagine this helps a lot having two screens side by side. You can remote into another phone and help a user like an old relative accomplish something. Or run a virtual machine or AI control panel

There is no doubt this is why Apple did this.

Without vulnerability derived backdoors I am convinced the government will strong arm the corporations to build a backdoor for the three letter agencies—at least in the US. But we also are at the dawn of quantum systems which could make interception and spying impossible or at least made obvious to the user when it happens.

Exhausting infrastructure vulnerabilities even without quantum could be a game changer for many technologies and enable things we can’t do right now, like vote on our phones.

But isn't that the point the writer is making? They'll be self-sabotaging themselves once they do that.

I don’t exactly see how, if there’s no exploit.

Either way there’s other realms it’s relevant like armed drones policing a street. Without a way for the public to activate a shutdown sequence, it becomes very difficult to stop if it starts murdering innocent children on some glitch. Which you cannot have because then the whole purpose is ineffective. Likewise digital communication is purposeless and face competing mediums for sure

hmm fair. so a foolproof backdoor that cannot be exploited by the enemies. I don't know how much of that is possible, but then again, the author is talking about super-secure-no-exploit software. So by that definition, a super secure exploit-free backdoor is also possible.