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What's coming for apps may in turn come for the Web. With the commotions around link sites, piracy, and pedophilia, a similar "must be signed/registered with us"-type restriction for accessing specific Web sites isn't a particularly tin foil hat idea now.


Yes, and that would be as simple as disabling HTTP in the commercial browsers (allowing only HTTPS.) The remaining handful of nerds who compiled their own browsers would require far fewer resources to track.

Note to self: don't buy a SSL certificate from GoDaddy.


Which commercial browsers? You mean the ones that Apple vetted and allowed on the App Store?




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