Apple's encryption service, Hide My Email, allows users to generate anonymous email addresses but does not protect them from subpoenas, particularly if they threaten the FBI directly. This comes after a person named Alden Ruml used an anonymized email address to send a threat involving an assault rifle mutilating Alexis Wilkins' head, the girlfriend of the FBI director Kash Patel. Apple provided these details to the FBI, noting that Ruml had 134 anonymized emails. Despite this, Apple does not always comply with a subpoena, but can push back on subpoenas that go too far. The only remaining services without end-to-end encryption are those necessary for their operation, iMessage.