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by drnick1 2 days ago
Apple can at any time push a hostile "upgrade" that will remove or disable the claimed security features. You don't control the operating system, and can't trust that it isn't backdoored, especially given Apple's record[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

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This is true at least with cloud services as they disabled ADP in the EU.
Edit: UK

And people had to press a button to disable it or their iCloud accounts would be disabled.

Making apple disable ADP is mass surveillance at its finest.