Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
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The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.
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Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.
Apple’s iCloud backups aren’t encrypted by default,
Why the fuck not?
It's important to note here that even if you turn on this option, Apple does not support full end-to-end encryption, there are still multiple factors that they keep under standard data protection which means they still have the encryption keys. They keep this under the guise of deduplication so they can save on storage costs but some examples of this are:
They explain how everything with their encryption works here
People aren't as technically intelligent as most of us on here.
Most companies haven't put up proper MFA with apps and rely on SMS. Imagine they used security codes to recover their data from Apple ...
They should just cut off all service to the UK and show a message with the contact information for everyone that wants the back door.
Is there an article/source for this, or is it just a pic of a phone with a lock on it?
@Picasso@thelemmy.club Could you post that in the body for us?
We're getting reports of this not being news/an article
Encrypt everything. Show these fascist politicians and their laws the middle finger.
Matrix.org is in trouble as they’re hosted in the UK.
poop
British humour gets me every time 😂
This isn’t going to happen. I’m not sure what the UK is expecting here.
I wonder if this was UK s idea or they're just acting as underlings of the great orange potato head and his husband space social man.