Wright's First Law of Gender Discernment: Everyone you meet on the Internet is a man, possibly over 50, probably overweight, most certainly balding.

(Note also, Wright's Qualification to the Laws of Gender Discernment: These laws do not govern the population of the Internet in its entirety; they are only valid for the population of the Internet that you will actually meet.)

Plus Ubuntu's upstart... And DJB's Daemontools... And runit... And EpochInit... and busybox's init...

I can understand implementing screen locking without device encryption; that's the state my phone currently is in, and it provides exactly the level of protection I require at this point in time - prevents casual snooping or misuse, but does not protect against a dedicated attacker.

Under what situations would device encryption be useful without a screen lock? Your phone data can be read by anyone who gets their hands on it, since the unencrypted data is exposed to anyone who swipes right...

I can't think of any good reason that your screen lock password should be weaker than your device password...

Except that Siren markets itself as a Tinder-style hookup app: its tagline is "Charm the pants off someone", and they've stated taht they're happy about being seen as the anti-Tinder...

There's a finer distinction at play (which I think you might already have noticed, but are not commenting on):

Currently female users receive X undesirable messages and Y desirable messages, with X much much larger than Y.

Removing photos on a conventional dating site drops both X and Y to near-zero.

The goal is to drop X to zero, while keeping Y as near as possible to the current value.

It is theorised that this is an impossible goal as long as men are doing the messaging, because the creeps will always out-message the sensible guys. ... BUT... this app doesn't attempt to do that. It does what you're suggesting - drop the incoming message numbers for the women to zero, and force them to take the action. The men don't/can't message the women at all. The men have to prove their worthiness by providing suitable pictures and answering daily questions in an interesting manner. The women can then make the first contact.

Passport scan to get a free certificate?

I've been using StartSSL for years, for a number of certificates - all they verify for the free cert is that I can click on a link sent to the postmaster address for the relevant domain...

If you want anything other than basic class-1 certificates for a single hostname there's a cost, and a more involved process; but that process is similar regardless of who does your identity verification.

If you want free class-1 certificates, there is no additional cost, and no super-secret documentation to send around.

I have no experience with StartCom's organisation verification process. However, for domain-verified class-1 certificates for individual hosts, they offer a free, immediate, trouble-free process which involves no more than clicking a link in my email.

Safari wrapper. http://www.howtogeek.com/184283/why-third-party-browsers-will-always-be-inferior-to-safari-on-iphone-and-ipad/ has you covered...

I assumed you were trying to be funny. But yeah, not everyone knows all of the mystery TLDs...

This is the kind of failure that dead tree media warned us about.
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They feared that it could be used to suppress protest or support unpopular rule.

Your sig is eerily appropriate here...

... most viruses require a constant high speed connection...

You must be new here - I'm young in internet years, but even I remember the number of viruses flying around in the days of floppy disks and dial-up modems, long before constant high speed connections...

Or simply temporarily leaving them behind? I'd leave my phone on the desk in my office if I was going to meet a contact I didn't want associated with me...