You can remotely lock any MDM managed device, this was possible 10 years ago and you need zero development. iCloud lock even brought this to the consumer space.

It is clear that non-tech people wrote this. Any company device I used in the last 10 years was always encrypted and could be remotely locked to not boot.

Additionally most bigger companies will have "security" software like Crowdstrike on all devices which is basically a backdoor.

Where do you think the leak came from then? The executives?

What hope there is about this sort of thing comes from the fact that they can't quite yet do to us as a profession what they do to taxi drivers.

The leak came from a disillusioned lobbiest, not the engineers.