[skybrian]

Innovation is often about using things in ways that were never intended. This often conflicts with the ability to police other people's behavior.

Maybe the resolution in this case would be requiring notification decryption to be open source with a verified compile, so Apple (and users) can see what the code does?

Users need privacy, code doesn't.

[RandallBrown]

People were using APIs in a way that wasn't intended, so Apple built APIs for the new use case. Seems like a pretty good way to handle the problem, without requiring a bunch of people to verify code.