article_snippet: The report says top-secret documents reveal U.S. government researchers had created a version of XCode, Apple's . software application development tool, to create surveillance .
article_snippet: These backdoors would have allowed These backdoors access into programs distributed on Apple's App Store.
article_snippet: Efforts to break into Apple products by government security .
article_snippet: Breaching Apple security was part of a top-secret programme .
highlights_snippet: This says spies had created a version of XCode - an app development tool .
  
highlights_snippet: This would have allowed spies access to programs on Apple's App Store .
  