Apple has gone to great lengths to make both devices secure and policies. You are awfully critical, so I really want to understand what is the expected behavior that you'd like to see?
Open source the security libraries? But if you don't trust Apple not to backdoor then what's stopping them from putting the backdoor in the kernel? At some point we must trust something.
That would help a lot.
> But if you don't trust Apple not to backdoor then what's stopping them from putting the backdoor in the kernel?
At the moment, nothing. That's kind of my point.
> At some point we must trust something.
Yes, that's true, but the more I can poke around under the hood (or hire someone to do it for me) the warmer and fuzzier I feel.
In other words: I think that the odds are >0 that there is a systemic weakness in Apple's security, either accidental (like the meltdown and spectre issues almost certainly are) or deliberately introduced by a mole, or by Apple's management in service of some higher cause. I think that the odds are further >0 that this weakness could be discovered by a malicious party, and that will end up leading to major problems, not all of which will necessarily be immediately obvious.
I think the odds are >0 that I will get a straight flush in my next hand at poker. Unfortunately, while true, this is not a valuable observation.
I also think it's possible that Apple could sneak a back door into the OS in cooperation with the U.S. government while maintaining an overt posture of defending their user's privacy. Yes, this would be risky, but if Apple management put patriotism or national security above commerce (which is not a completely unreasonable thing for them to do) they might decide to take such a risk.