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The tools are already in place for misuse. iPhones autoupdate by default, so Apple can push new malicious privacy-invading software to your device at any time without your intervention.

Each update, even if done manually, re-enables autoupdate, requiring that you go turn it off.

Apple is really into being able to run whatever code they want on your device without your intervention.




Sure, but by that reasoning, any system that has updates is by definition 100% insecure, and nothing else matters anymore…

The world is not just black and white.


Unattended autoupdate is indeed insecure, as the Solarwinds hack nicely illustrated.

When the vendor can execute arbitrary code on your machine without intervention, that's effectively a backdoor of any/all kinds.




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