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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your right, I don't think those Israel companies got a backdoor from apple. A "magic packet" backdoor is too hard to hide into the code and would tank their trust FAST. However, They do encrypt the system files to prevent reverse engineering. iPhones then have enough bad practices (see: the IMessage post) (some of them oddly specific) to make a software developer cry in the corner. Incompetence, UX tunnel vision or intentional flaws. (honestly I don't know the answer)