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I don't think goals or intents matter. Apple's goal might be to prevent the Ancient God Mulk'nar from returning to our dimension to begin the second stage of The Reckoning, and commenters might point out "Mulk'nar hasn't showed up yet, so this must be working"; but if either Apple or the commenters seriously think that having a closed device is what is preventing Mulk'nar from returning, they are clearly deceiving themselves as in practice the device has been de facto open (by ludicrous means that should not be required) for many years. The argument here is essentially "you are asking Apple to give up the only thing preventing Mulk'nar from returning" and I am showing how that makes no sense given the reality of history. People are saying the iPhone is very secure. The iPhone is, factually, a device which for many years was one of the more open platforms for people to tinker with their own device, due to the jailbreak scene. So the idea that allowing even all people, much less just security researchers, to tinker with their own device somehow would undo the security of the system doesn't make sense.



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