Earlier quoted context omitted.
"In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information," the company said in a statement. "Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests." - Apple addressing Senator Wyden's accusation of Push Notification backdoors ( https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve... ) “At Apple, we are always working to defe…
Those aren't iMessage hardware backdoors.
You may have skipped my second link. Here it is a second time, with the important quote excerpted: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/23/apple-sue...
The Pegasus project, an investigation into NSO by the Guardian and other media outlets, coordinated by the French media group Forbidden Stories, has documented dozens of examples in which NSO’s spyware was used to attack users of Apple’s iPhone. In some cases, a vulnerability in the company’s iMessage feature, which could be penetrated by Pegasus, was used against journalists, human rights activists and other members of civil society.