> Similarly, Apple has already admitted that a backdoor exists for all iPhones. In my opinion, this is an inexcusable security hole at best, and at worst an implication that Apple intended at some point to comply with government requests for encrypted information.
A backdoor does not exist and Apple is fighting the government to create one.
I think the implication is that Apple can push an iOS upgrade with security holes, and without an open-source system, we can't know if it has security issues or not. (At least that's the impression I've gleaned from the other comments)
I don't own an iPhone, so I don't know how the update process works.
A backdoor does not exist and Apple is fighting the government to create one.