Ahh, the good old government backdoor. Maybe they should ask the Americans how well that went with their telco equipment...
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"The only good backdoor is my backdoor."
Hmm, that sounds worse than I meant it to.
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giggity
Can confirm, they have a really good backdoor.
Thanks.
No worries.
“The only good back door is my wife’s back door”?
The problem about a backdoor is anyone can get into it. If you need evidence, please see above.
Why are we talking about my mom?
Or how it's currently going with Elon's installation of unauthorized, networked hardware in many vital government agencies.
Reminder that the CISA group investigating Salt Typhoon was disbanded by the current nazi administration. Quite disturbing to think how many devices might still be compromised while the investigation has been abandoned.
As a British person I hope Apple pulls all iCloud services including iMessage and FaceTime, rather than comply with this demand. It’s the only way the public will notice.
Sorry man, they won't. Those billions don't get hoarded in tax havens by themselves.
If Apple renamed iMessage something like Leaky Communicator or Insecure Texts (Security Breach)
and renamed FaceTime like FaceTime with you and your government…
and then both apps had frequent warnings about data being shared with the government, I wonder how many folks would be willing to go years without ever bothering to do anything to try to fix it.
(btw iOS prompts to contact legislators would go a long way now that I think about it, a la the TikTok thing)
The United Kingdom has issued a secret order to Apple.
If they’re so bad at keeping secrets that anyone can read all about them within a month, then they have no business ordering anyone to create software backdoors.
Global access is wild, basically it means if the UK could force this that any five eyes country would then have the same access without needing to look bad to their citizens.
Also, how hard do we expect Apple to fight this? I have a hard time believing they would just pull out of the UK but I could be wrong. From what I understand China has this type of access because they don't allow E2EE.
Global access is wild, basically it means if the UK could force this that any five eyes country would then have the same access without needing to look bad to their citizens.
Doesn't the US already have that backdoor? From what you're saying, the UK probably already has access? Not attacking, sincerely asking.
Doesn’t the US already have that backdoor?
If they do they aren't admitting it.
If they do, the cops and mid-level government agencies don't know. When that recent phone reboot patch when in, they were losing their minds because a bunch of phones sitting around for weeks to be cracked ended up encrypted.
As far as I know Apple didn't give in, Trump and the FBI wanted it during his first term but I don't think it happened. At least I hope it didn't.
Peasants mad that they're treated like peasants by the aristocracy and their guards.
Won’t happen. Waste of time and taxpayer money.
Only possible as iOS fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software.
How so? (Genuine question)
How we going to remove its backdoor when it bans us from changing, controlling, copies of its source code?
That's weird coming from the UK. Expect that to be an American thing.
When the Snowden Revelations came out, the US rolled back some of the surveillance, whilst in the UK which had even more invasive surveillance than the US, they got the editor of the newspaper which brought out the Revelations fired and passed a law to retroactively make all those practices legal.
This is now at all weird coming from the UK, quite the contrary - it's totally expected since they're worse than the US.
Maybe you're confusing the much higher quality of image management of the UK (in the country that created the word "posh", projecting the right appearance is traditionally a speciality of the upper classes over there) than in the US with the reality of Britain when it comes to civil society surveillance and democratic practices in general - Britain is pretty close the Stasi East-Germany when it comes to the established powers keeping an eye on the riff-raff.