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> Thousands of developers over a decade have touched code going into iOS & Mac OS and so far have a pretty good track record on internal espionage and back doors.

Maybe. Or maybe they have an impeccable track record on not getting caught (at least publicly). It's essentially impossible to differentiate the two.

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Between those companies developers have checked in tens or hundreds of thousands of exploitable bugs. It's not far-fetched to think that at least one of them might have been intentional.

> It's essentially impossible to differentiate the two.

This sounds like "guilty until proven innocent" logic - maybe we should drown people to prove they're not witches. I'm all for a healthy dose of skepticism, but there's a point it passes into fantasy.

No, it means that making statements about the certainty of this in either direction is foolish and unsupported by evidence.

Companies quietly fix problems all the time. Why would anyone disclose anything negative if they are not mandated to, by law? Remember when Uber paid off a hacker and kept the hack under wraps? That is just one example.

This is not guilty until proven innocent, this is just the way most businesses operate.

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