Something like hacking into a journalist's phone would require a lot of cooperation between infrastructure, software, and security to actually perform a targeted attack.
Despite Apple's harsh warnings about leaking secrets, people at Apple have already been spilling the beans about Apple's upcoming Ad platform for over a year, and that's just for something as morally grey as ads that they're going to spin as "privacy preserving" anyways. For something that actually goes against <everything> Apple has ever stood for, like targeting a journalist's phone to read their communications or extract data and secret keys from their advanced protection-protected iCloud Backups, at least one of the hundred involved would find a comfy bunker to live in with a phone line leading straight to News Corp or NYT.
Something like hacking into a journalist's phone would require a lot of cooperation between infrastructure, software, and security to actually perform a targeted attack.
Despite Apple's harsh warnings about leaking secrets, people at Apple have already been spilling the beans about Apple's upcoming Ad platform for over a year, and that's just for something as morally grey as ads that they're going to spin as "privacy preserving" anyways. For something that actually goes against <everything> Apple has ever stood for, like targeting a journalist's phone to read their communications or extract data and secret keys from their advanced protection-protected iCloud Backups, at least one of the hundred involved would find a comfy bunker to live in with a phone line leading straight to News Corp or NYT.