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It’s a pretty obscure API, and Apple has a strong interest in at least being perceived as pro user privacy.

And assuming for a second this is indeed an intentional backdoor in plain sight of the world: What’s in it for Apple?

Hanlon’s razor still cuts in 2023, at least for me.



>Apple has a strong interest in at least being perceived as pro user privacy.

Perceived is doing a lot of lifting there. The public largely cannot audit Apple's ACTUAL security.


That’s true, but arguably irrelevant here since this is a public, documented API that can be audited.




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