Comment by MontyCarloHall a day ago
All user data is E2E encrypted, so the government literally cannot force this. This has been the source of numerous disputes [0, 1] that either result in the device itself being cracked [0] (due to weak passwords or vulnerabilities in device-level protection) or governments attempting to ban E2E encryption altogether [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
What you cited is for data on a device that was turned off. Not daily internet connected usage. No one is saying you have no protection at all with Apple, it is just very limited compared to what it should be by modern security best practices, and much worse than what can be achieved on android and linux.
> much worse than what can be achieved on android and linux.
* Certain types of Android
It's a warrant canary, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
If they didn't want you to think key escrow might be possible, why wouldn't they just leave the wording the way it was? Why go through the effort and thereby draw attention to it? The court system doesn't use sovcit rules where playful interpretation of wording can get a trillion dollar corporation out of a lawsuit or whatever.
Maybe E2E, but the data eventually has to be decrypted to read it.
Then you learn that every modern CPU has a built-in backdoor, a dedicated processor core, running a closed-source operating system, with direct access to the entire system RAM, and network access. [a][b][c][d].
You can not trust any modern hardware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family#Securi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_privacy_of_iOS