[Ol' Dan Tucker]

By design. To allow advertising revenue strings and to allow Fed monitoring. Hackers simply use what is there by design.

Do you think Apple said 'Yes' or 'No' when the FBI came a-knockin'?

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Today’s White Hat had the potential to be tomorrows Black Hat !

There are already enough backdoors in electronic communications , and it seems that smarter minds than mine are already snooping.