Originally Posted by
stimpy
As I wrote several times in this thread, you can choose to believe what they do, or will do in the future. There is a rather small pool of people who know exactly what they do, release to release.
I choose to believe in reality, not conspiracy theories. There's nothing to gain and everything to lose.
Everyone should also be aware that Apple has to comply with the laws of every nation that they sell products and services in. Those laws can change and they can change in secret. There is an abundance of history of governments requiring compliance in secret reporting from financial infrastructure providers.
The FBI tried to sue Apple to force them to create a back door. Apple said no and the few people at Apple who had the knowledge and skills to do it stated that they would resign if it ever came to that.
Originally Posted by
tmiw
(BTW, taken to its logical conclusion, you probably don't want to trust any device that doesn't have fully open software and hardware.
But even that can't be trusted unless you also write your own compiler and design and build the hardware...