[gjsman-1000]

One very, very basic measurement / thought experiment for holiness in Christian circles to think about is the following:

Imagine Christianity is illegal. Imagine the government decides to prosecute you, but hires the weakest, most incompetent, repeatedly-almost-disbarred prosecutor there is. You meanwhile get access to David Boies. Would the government have enough evidence for even the worst prosecutor to prove you are a Christian?

Well, if not… it’s like Mozilla doesn’t realize that religious people don’t mind prayer being a fairly public act as long as people against them aren’t preying on them. Catholics have Mass every Sunday; Muslims have their five-times-daily prayers and often wear clothing that clearly identifies them as such; and so forth.

[lo_zamoyski]

Prayer can be both public and private. It's more than just the danger of being exposed as a Christian to a regime that is hostile to it and persecuting Christians. The seal of confession is an obvious good example of why privacy is important. Everyone standing in line to the confessional knows you're Catholic and that you're going to confession. They don't know what you're confessing to.

Obviously, you shouldn't be storing confessions in an app, but the principle is that privacy goes beyond the danger of persecution.

[hospitalJail]

Your thought problem isnt productive because it creates a fake scenario that creates validity to an otherwise invalid problem.

Okay, if Christianity is illegal you'd want your Christian apps to be secure.

If Christianity isnt illegal, you don't care.

You'd want privacy if you were using the silk road, but you are probably okay with your alarm clock app collecting the number of times you hit snooze. You'd also be okay if the US/Chinese government knew that you hit snooze.

[villagevanguard]

The person you're replying to is using the hypothetical to illustrate why religious people don't care if prayer app data is made public. He is not trying to tease out the hypothetical any further than that.