Comment by maqp

There's probably not a backdoor in the device. At least I haven't seen any news about that. But.

Apple has been an NSA PRISM-partner since 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#/media/File:Prism_slide_...

Also, apparently they had 100% success rate installing malware on the devices: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/the-nsa-rep...

It's been close to 12 years since Snowden. Who knows how the defense has improved. Who knows how the offense has improved.