Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands

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• extremeboredom@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The solution is to stop putting your data on other people’s computers. You can’t control other people’s computers. Apple does not care about you any more than any other trillion dollar corpo. Take back control.

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  • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The very funny thing Apple could do in response to this is allow people to self-host iCloud data storage. They do make privacy a huge part of their advertising after all. The chances of this happening are astronomically low though.

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    • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like back when they sold Time Capsules as a home backup solution? I could sort of see that happening. You can already backup the phones to a Macintosh. I don’t think that would stop the UK government demanding a backdoor to the product, though.

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  • peereboominc@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or don’t use someone’s encryption if you don’t have the private encryption key. Encrypt it yourself. But still then, it is only a matter of time when the encryption of your data is cracked. Could take years but if it is data someone really wants, one day it can be decrypten.

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    • extremeboredom@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hence, if the data is not on someone else’s computer in the first place, it is not a matter of time.

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sounds like it’s time to leak a bunch of politician nudes to show them why encryption matters.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah, the Fapening II… Merkel is already in the list.

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    • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What are the chances of seeing Liz only wearing her truss?

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Backdoors: making insecure software on purpose.

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• turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Roight, you got a loicense for them keys bruv?

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• hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Added this article to idcaboutprivacy.

  The project is open source and only requires basic Markdown knowledge to contribute.

  If you have any other privacy-related articles (especially those that talk about consequences), it’d be great for you to contribute.

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  • balder1993@programming.dev ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This has quite a lot of links already. I feel like it would be very useful to make some sort of “Wiki” about this.

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    • hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks. All links have been just me so far, but I do think the project has some real value and would benefit from contributions.

      What kind of wiki did you have in mind? What would it do?

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• singletona@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh look at that. it’s ‘Turns out corporations aren’t your friends’ o’clock.

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  • spooky_mango@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m all for hating on corporations but did you even read the article? This is completely on the UK government. Not apples fault and I’d much rather they stop offering the service to UK customers (which they did) over putting a backdoor in

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• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s the country where the prime minister leaked the meeting ID of the unsecured cabinet meeting.. They really don’t get security.

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  • DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In our defence, Boris Johnson is an idiot cunt.

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would tell them to use syncthing for moving their files around, but apple ecosystem is apparently too locked down for good software.

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  • Waldschrat@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sushitrain/Synctrain might be what you looking for. It’s a libre and new app for putting syncthing to iOS: github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain

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  • DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, iOS/iPadOS isn’t great for that, so far as I can tell. I spent am unreasonable amount of time the other day trying to work out how to get the Obsidian vault on my iPad to sync with the vault in my SyncThing folder. Still not entirely happy with my setup. In fairness though, I’m running SyncThing on three computers, and two of them are Macs. So its solid on there.

    But other than that, SyncThing isn’t a great replacement for iCloud Drive because you can’t choose what you download. So if I have 200gb in my ST folder I can’t sync it with my 128gb phone.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      But other than that, SyncThing isn’t a great replacement for iCloud Drive because you can’t choose what you download. So if I have 200gb in my ST folder I can’t sync it with my 128gb phone.

      did you try to use syncthing’s filters?

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