Over the weekend, iOS security hacker Jonathan Zdziarski released a presentation claiming to show how Apple had purposefully made backdoor access points for a variety of system and user data on iOS devices, that would usually be locked and encrypted via the passcode. The legitimacy of the claims is still questionable.

Apple has now commented on the matter, unsurprisingly denying any misconduct. Apple reiterates its previous statement: ‘Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services’.

The comment says that the information exposed in the presentation is used for diagnostics purposes by “IT departments, developers and Apple” for debugging. According to Apple, this data is never transferred without explicit consent.

Apple statement denies working with "any government agency … to create a backdoor in any of our products" pic.twitter.com/5psXWtOXW2 — Tim Bradshaw (@tim) July 21, 2014

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