> allow a malicious employee / government to write code (...) from that point on in future conversations This is exactly what Apple fought to protect "recently

> allow a malicious employee / government to write code (...) from that point on in future conversations This is exactly what Apple fought to protect "recently". Once a government entity forces backdoors on citizen, privacy goes out the window. Apple knows this and I think you can expect them to make a gigantic media mess if they were forced to. It would ruin their business world-wide.