[freeflight]

How so? Any competent intelligence service will not just depend on the goodwill of a corporation to secure access to assets and intelligence.

If they cooperate that's good and convenient, but that does not mean the intelligence service will not set in place contingencies for if the other side suddenly decides not to play ball anymore.

[jsjohnst]

I said nothing about anything you stated, that’s all clearly possible, I specifically refuted the unsupported claim that Apple “eagerly cooperate with spy agencies”, where there’s ample evidence to support an opposite claim.