Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting
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Today, in response to the U.K.’s demands for a backdoor, Apple has stopped offering users in the U.K. Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature in iCloud that turns on end-to-end encryption for files, backups, and more. Had Apple complied with the U.K.’s original demands, they would have been...
  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Apple’s decision to disable the feature for U.K. users could well be the only reasonable response at this point

    Hard disagree. The most reasonable response would be to refuse to comply, organize, and fight it in court. But that would cost them money. And they don’t care about their users that much.

  • drop_and_run@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Troubling precedent, but I expect no one used this anyways. Anybody who needs this would be smart enough to know not to trust so proprietary a device and service.

    Given how readily Apple has rolled over for law enforcement in the past, this is just security theater.