Paul, I’m going to have to disagree with you here. The remote wipe possibilities are only a minor side effect, and not really my concern. I personally find the methodology behind the grand scheme of what Apple is trying to do more than a little invasive.

I’ll grant you, that since I have had a kid, my level of general paranoia has climbed to heights I never would have believed… :P — but even if it is an opt-in only security measure, I wouldn’t feel comfortable knowing that my phone had that kind of capability at all.

As for “alarmist”, no one is crying that the sky is falling, here man — but it is significant news when a body such as the EFF weighs in so heavily on a subject that is, arguably, their area of expertise. And this is a reasonable forum to discuss it in.