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Xusheng Li published four teardowns with no CVEs and no vendor notice. The failures are key management and authentication design rather than cryptography, and one product shipped hidden accounts with fixed passwords.
31 August was Cook's last day as Apple CEO after about 15 years, but the transition was announced on 20 April and he has not left the company. He moves to executive chairman with a remit that explicitly includes engaging with policymakers — in the same month Apple's encryption fight with the UK Home Office reaches a tribunal.
The UK dropped its first secret order in 2025 after American pushback. It issued a second. Apple has now filed a complaint with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, and the underlying demand is unchanged: access to backups that are end-to-end encrypted by design.