As much as I &lt;3 Apple, they&#x27;re still a SPoF just like Lavabit or anyone else with centralized servers that aren&#x27;t &quot;SWAT-resistant.&quot;  If iDevices could work without iCloud and usefully communicate with each other directly (sans cell network too), that would be impressive... storage, processing and wireless tech are all getting cheaper... p2p &quot;iCloud&quot; might be within the realm of not-quite-insane.<p>(Somehow, I feel iMessage and related apps are MITMable because there is no mandatory, mutual, out-of-band validation of a recipient&#x27;s identity.)