UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only the US is allowed to backdoor every company globally! /s

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is no backdoor in Apple’s encryption. That’s the reason the US and UK governments have prosecuted Apple repeatedly. They can obtain iCloud data with a warrant, but are repeatedly pressing for real-time surveillance. The UK banned encryption without a backdoor, so Apple turned off encryption rather than compromising their standard.

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The funny thing is, advanced data protection was optional, and not on by default. Apple just stopped offering it in the UK

      support.apple.com/en-us/108756

      When it’s enabled, they can’t access iCloud data at all, even with a warrant due to the fact it’s E2E with keys they don’t control. That’s what the UK got really mad about. But Apple shut the whole feature down for the UK in response to the backdoor ask.

      It’s not different from the UK banning signal because it’s E2E encrypted and they can’t access it.

      They’re likely only backing down now because of consumer/media backlash

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      These things you write, they are not in any way substantiation of the claim that Apple doesn’t make backdoors.

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    • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are many, many backdoors

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• goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ( ͡° ͜つ ͡°)╭∩╮ UK

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Feck you too, I guess. If that’s how you want to behave.

    I could understand you being unhappy with our government, but just blanket swearing at all 68 million of us is a dick move.

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    • communism@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Are you the UK? No, you’re someone who lives there. The UK is a state.

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    • crapwittyname@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      *brevity is the soul of wit"

      ~Shakespeare

      “Um actually, wit is actually a subjective phenomenon, with everyone having a different idea of what it actually means. How could such a construct actually possess a ‘soul’? And that’s not even getting started on the assertion that souls actually exist in any real way”.

      ~Obinice

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