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by spin 3770 days ago
I'm under the impression that this "backdoor" is the fact that these phones can download updates to the OS. The phone checks that the update is signed by Apple. If Apple can be trusted to keep their code-signing keys secret, then surely they can be trusted to keep a special version of the OS secret.

I'm still opposed to this, though... The FBI wants to be able to dictate to a private company what features to build (because of the All Writs Act).