> Harder to attack, sure, but no outside validation. There is actually a third party auditor involved in certifying hardware integrity prior to deployment.[1]

> Harder to attack, sure, but no outside validation. There is actually a third party auditor involved in certifying hardware integrity prior to deployment.[1] But yes, the goal is to protect against rogue agents and hackers (and software bugs!), not to prove that Apple as an organization has fundamentally designed backdoors into the secure element of their silicon. [1] https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compute/hardwareintegrity https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu...