And before you give me a bunch of nonsense about needing a code to decrypt your data, again and again, Most Apple users keep their auto update feature activated so that their phone receives the latest of numerous updates.
You would be remiss as a Apple aficionado to turn it off and not be up to date.
All they would need to do from the provider side is send you a update with a back door and you would never know it.
Would you?
My carrier was Verizon. Do you think that I trust them? They are federally regulated nearly to the degree that the Chinese carriers are and they are obligated to do whatever the authorities tell them to do.
As I indicated some time ago in one of my posts, the Federal governments of both china and the US have the same fears about there citizenry. They want to know what they are doing, thinking, saying, if they can. If there was a public uprising, they both understand that disabling the internet pipes would also damage communications in the government.
So what is the answer to that little problem...Certainly not a internet off switch that is often rumored to exist. NO, NO....that would be bad...so how do they kill comms in the public domain and not affect the government.
I’ll let you figure that out.
When you figure that out, then ask yourself just what else they can do.
Frankly, I would much rather use a CB radio...
Hardly anyone has them anymore...
Bought a couple last month..
And your CARRIER cannot change a thing on your iPhone. Zip, nada, nothing. Only Apple can do that. An iOS device will only accept alterations from a secure Apple certified upgrade server, and then only after it receives an encrypted key. That was one of the very first thing Apple locked down with the carriers. . . no access to the OS or apps. They, like everyone else, must submit any apps to Apple to be placed after vetting on the Apple App Store for voluntary download, if the customer wants them. No pre-installed crapware, no back doors. Not so with Android.
CB, three mile range, very little of the citizen band channels left legal to use. "Breaker, breaker, 19, that you good buddy?” And NO PRIVACY!