> I find exceedingly difficult to imagine that one of the most sophisticated companies in the world, with some of brightest minds out there, did not consider an

> I find exceedingly difficult to imagine that one of the most sophisticated companies in the world, with some of brightest minds out there, did not consider and calculate this precisely; that there is any way any of this has come as a surprise to Apple. Extending Apple the benefit of doubt does not seem possible in this case. Why is that so difficult to imagine? Apple's security model has always been "just trust us and don't question it", questioning their own practices themselves just has never been done. That's already what's happening with any other Apple software, their own services are off limit of their model, explicitly excluded & explicitly trusted. This opinion is also reflected in their security threat document they published, they never talk about themselves being in the list of potential threats. That's just in the continuity on how they usually work.