The *real* reason for the cloak and daggers is and always has been that having an *easy* method waiting in the wings is always a good thing to have when someone contacts us to start working on attempting to dig into punching a hole somewhere applicable for something more wide-release.
Obviously, that hasn't actually happened in a while, though
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(By which I mean, there's not been any actual attempts at anything since @BD. That was your usual reminder that if you want control over your device, don't get a Kindle.).