Comment on Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting.

• ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, but if that’s your only concern, then you aren’t really concerned that to toggle is removed in the UK, either

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your definition of “rolling over” is different than mine.

    • They’re requiring a warrant for the information. They don’t just hand over stuff at any request.
    • They review the warrant before handing over the data. They don’t provide data in 100% of cases.
    • They offer users end to end encryption, which would certainly make it difficult for the data recipient to decrypt if the data is handed over.
    • They don’t offer the government a “backdoor” to make it easy to decrypt user data.
    • They offer users the option to encrypt and store the data locally rather than uploading it to Apple.

    What would you have them do differently when the warrants issued are valid in the legal sense/approved by a judge?

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    • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      • They don’t offer the government a “backdoor” to make it easy to decrypt user data.

      Is what’s being discussed. Since Apple has a backdoor in the default configuration of their phone, they’re able to comply with 90% of all data requests.

      The UK is demanding they remove the option to disable the backdoor in their encryption

      You can kind-of sort-of use local only, but Apple makes that very inconvenient and almost 0 users do

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