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I mean it was famously tested in 2015 after the San Bernardino attack. Apple didn’t back down [1] and later sued the company who sold the zero-day to the govt to unlock the phone [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/14/azimuth...



Also famously tested (and failed) much more recently. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

Apple shills are the worst.


That's an ordinary subpoena and that data is not being specially collected and not e2ee encrypted. Has nothing to do with the guarantee in this article.


Push notifications are on a whole different level than "full access to your phone".




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