> Nothing listed is a backdoor.

I'm baffled. I like to think of the quality of HN comments as much higher.

Apple had options to make this data unavailable by design to themselves and to law enforcement. They chose a design so that they could provide this information. The phone does it without the user's consent.

However, I understand that there are people who would rather redefine terminology to suit their cognitive dissonance.

In any case we can agree on the following:

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Apple provides a near majority of your sensitive information to law enforcement by the design of the product, and you can not use the product in a meaningful way without that information becoming available to state surveillance and state law enforcement.