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The benefit would be they could still market the device and the most “secure” but at the same time duck pressure from governments to allow back door access.

If Apple truly secured the OS to the point where even state level actors could not access they bring some unwanted attention, regulation, etc from power governmental agencies.

Apple has also been interestingly silent /vague on a response to this story.




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