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Apple (and the other FAANGs) do not employ average Silicon Valley dev teams.

In general, a company at that size would approach this problem by figuring out who in the company is willing to take on an unsavory challenge like this and then forming a skunkworks out of them, slightly sequestered from the rest of the company.

I'm not saying Apple has done it, or that they're incentivized to. But it's trust-turtles all the way down. Either we trust them to say "No, you can't use our tech to harm our users," or we don't.