Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
The British government has secretly demanded that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud, reports The...
For those of you not in the UK, or unfamiliar, its important to understand just how intrusive the gvmt are in terms of privacy and how intrusive they want to be. We are world leaders in gvmt led privacy oppression.
If encryption can be backdoored, then it was never encrypted anyway.
Encoded would be the proper term then.
Yep. What's the point of trusting "encoded" sensitive content that can be cracked at a whim by the company?
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I dont know how you say: โThis is fucking scaryโ in British English, but in Canadian English, Iโd say it like: โThis is fucking scaryโ.
"Propah froitnen innit" is a loose translation
It's scary in that they don't understand why that's a bad idea, but it's kind of stupid in that Apple probably can't, if Apple implemented E2EE at all correctly.
Assuming that's true, they can demand all they want, but you can't just:
if government_order == true: iCloud.unlock()
...assuming they use any of the usual encryption algorithms.
What is interesting is that they've ordered Apple to do it but (maybe) not Google, which has a much larger share of Android users in Europe. Is the UK iOS-heavy?
Lil Americans speaking American! We gonna save you!
