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However, if they are, at some point the government is going to try to present evidence they gleaned through this lie, and that fact will leak out.
No, they are not. That is the whole point of parallel construction.
This is the world Richard Stallman predicted, and "we" [1] - developers with the most power and the most to lose - are leading the charge head-first. I am just old enough to remember the Bad Old Apple of the mid-90s, and this nonsense does not surprise at all. Apple has had a good run playing the Unix card; developers buy Macbooks in droves because "it's like a Linux that just works". But just wait a few more years until the Terminal is apptimized away. The waffling non-open-sourcing of Swift should have been the final clue.
[1] the only apple product I own is a 2nd generation iPod in a drawer somewhere. I still hold myself responsible.