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by coolspot 1798 days ago
Apple is known to hand off whole China iCloud to CCP.

Also they refuse to zero-knowledge (e2e) encrypt US iCloud backups[1].

In San Bernandino shooter’s case, they refused FBI’s request to develop new tools to hack an already locked iPhone.

However I have little doubt they will refuse to sign&push OTA update of a Signal.app or “improved” iOS developed and provided by NSA.

Mercenary who helped Carlos Ghosn, recalled that in the middle of operation, while riding a train, his iPhone suddenly rebooted and started an iOS update[2]:

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On the train, Taylor’s phone began an unexpected automatic software update. “The first thing I thought was, I wonder if the NSA knows,” he recalls. “I wouldn’t put anything past them.”

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[1] - https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2021/01/apple-scraps-end-to-end-e...

[2] - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-carlos-ghosn-esc...