For better or for worse, articles like this and the leaking of information from Grayshift gives Apple a lot of smoke to follow. If you’re trying to figure out h

For better or for worse, articles like this and the leaking of information from Grayshift gives Apple a lot of smoke to follow. If you’re trying to figure out how an attacker is getting into a system and you’ve cut off one major vector, that’s good. But if the attacker then comes out and says that they’re unaffected by that vector cutoff, it signals that was the wrong vector to block off. It’s an interesting cat and mouse game, but I have a feeling that the cat will win. Apple can “go nuclear” and do something like remove wired data connectivity all together, for example. Low level boot firmware doesn’t need to change all that often — getting it “right” means that they won’t need to worry about it for a long time. Apple loves showing off their investment to privacy as of late. It’s very tempting from Apple’s perspective to invest a lot of time and money in keeping attackers out now, more than ever.