[higherpurpose]

Consider this: it was only at the end of December when Appelbaum showed some documents about iPhones being hacked by the NSA, and it made a pretty big splash in the media. I think it even forced Apple to respond at the time. Especially if this was open sourced, and everyone could see they fixed it, they wouldn't immediately try to plug the bug/backdoor after that piece of news came out, especially with such a weird bug.

[giovannibajo1]

Those documents were about NSA bein able to plant a malware on a iPhone (1st generation) when given physical access. I would say it has nothing to do with this TLS bug