[mei0Iesh]

How does not encrypting the kernel translate into a narrative worthy of such admiration? I feel like Apple has spent a lot of money and research into how to do brand marketing so that you would write this comment. I don't see how technically this move means any such thing, and instead people are primed to fall into such a belief because they want that feel-good story about Apple being their privacy hero in scary times when big brother is prying more than ever. It's just an unencrypted kernel, which was decrypted in memory anyways. It isn't even source code.

[jshevek]

Yes, exactly. Remember how everyone jumped on those "apple recycles all the metal" stories, which proved to be almost entirely false? People just love feeling good about apple, even when those good feelings are based on falsehoods.