I don't know how Apple's servers security fares now, but I took a quick look 4 years ago and it was notoriously bad. They were responsive and solved the exploitable bugs soon after I notified them. No bounties though.
If their software and network security is similar now.. then they should spend resources there rather than care too much about modified hardware by a governmental agency.
An issue at very large companies like Apple is that while they can be superb in one area or in one core product does not translate into being adept in other areas under different teams with different management styles, demands budgets, etc.
So unless Apple are going to put their best and poach other industry bests, their result will likely not deliver on premise or promise.
Judging by their rhetoric and their recent win (can it be called that?), there is certainly widespread interest in them locking themselves down. They would look a little foolish if not.
My comment just meant that I needed 1 hour to find a way to get a shell in a couple of their servers. That is more worrisome to me than the NSA snooping around. And I'm not a great pentester, I probably wouldn't find a bug in Google even if I spent a couple weeks.
It's an interesting experiment. The number of patients (15) is very low though, there is no control.. but it's good that people is working on this.
Virtual therapy may be a very good choice for people with addiction or phobias. A cheap way to diminish the cue reactivity in relation to the object of addiction or offer exposure therapy for phobias/anxiety.
I have been working for some time now on the application of CBT techniques and quantified self (for me, modern applied stoicism) with the objective of improving virtuous behavior. I have not been very successful developing an interface which makes it easy/appealing enough to use it multiple times a day. Maybe they're into something converting those CBT exercises into a virtual "game".
Aren't both of those just robust rubber domes with scissor switches? The quality of portable Bluetooth keyboards with those specs have steadily improved.
If you're looking for a portable Thinkpad-quality keyboard, the closest thing you're going to get was ironically originally made for Pocket PCs years ago -- it's a 4-segment folding keyboard, the design of which appears to have been updated to work with Bluetooth and is now selling as the ludicrously overpriced "Amigo 2.0" or the Chinese-branded GK 308.
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/