The UK government is demanding that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the company’s iCloud storage platform, The Washington Post reports, citing “people familiar with the matter.”
Joseph Menn for The Washington Post:
The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies.
Its application would mark a significant defeat for tech companies in their decades-long battle to avoid being wielded as government tools against their users, the people said, speaking under the condition of anonymity to discuss legally and politically sensitive issues.
Rather than break the security promises it made to its users everywhere, Apple is likely to stop offering encrypted storage in the U.K., the people said. Yet that concession would not fulfill the U.K. demand for backdoor access to the service in other countries, including the United States…
One of the people briefed on the situation, a consultant advising the United States on encryption matters, said Apple would be barred from warning its users that its most advanced encryption no longer provided full security. The person deemed it shocking that the U.K. government was demanding Apple’s help to spy on non-British users without their governments’ knowledge.
MacDailyNews Take: The current batshit insane “leadership” of Airstrip One is having yet another crisis of confidence.
Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. – Potter Stewart
MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s Advanced Data Protection for iCloud is an optional setting that offers Apple’s highest level of cloud data security. If you choose to enable Advanced Data Protection, the majority of your iCloud data — including iCloud Backup, Photos, Notes, and more — is protected using end-to-end encryption. No one else can access your end-to-end encrypted data, not even Apple, and this data remains secure even in the case of a data breach in the cloud.
How to turn on Advanced Data Protection for iCloud
On Mac
- Choose Apple menu > System Settings.
- Click your name, then click iCloud.
- Click Advanced Data Protection, then click Turn On.
- Follow the onscreen instructions to review your recovery methods and enable Advanced Data Protection.
On iPhone and iPad
- Open the Settings app.
- Tap your name, then tap iCloud.
- Scroll down, tap Advanced Data Protection, then tap Turn on Advanced Data Protection.
- Follow the onscreen instructions to review your recovery methods and enable Advanced Data Protection.
More info about Apple’s Advanced Data Protection for iCloud here.
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Communist s***hole UK and EU can go F themselves.
Never give in to those pieces of nazi garbage. No back doors. Drop dead.
The UK has gone full fascist.
Apple has a HUGE following in the U.K., but the government is leaving them no choice but to tell them NO.
Accept the Apple model or pull out. Let the citizens wake up their gov from their insanity.
The encryption should not be negotiable. Especially in the world today.
The UK wants back doors to ALL iphones all over the world. Crazy communist fascist stuff.
communist or fascist…. which is it, as it cant be both ???
Nazis were literally democrat socialists, ie, National Socialist German Workers’ Party. But par for the course from ignorant retard leftist piece of s*** commies like you.
Cry more
Any government can ‘put you away’ if they really want to (eg- Martha Stewart going to prison, not for the charged crime, but for ‘lying’ to an official) … I had a similar experience … Years ago, I applied for a health insurance plan. Some ‘auditor’ lady called me and asked me a few questions. She said, “We can’t offer you this plan.” I asked, “Why?” She said, “Because you lied on your application.” I said, “No, I did not.” She said, “Right now, I asked you your weight. You said ‘210.’” But your application says “215.” … “You lied, so I can’t offer you the plan,” and she hung up . . . If the Feds have all your data, they can trick you into lying, and lock you up for it.
Nanny-statism is a kind way to say it. Humans have a great tendency to control and, if let to wander, central govt (yes, even socialism as seen here) can morph to dystopian levels. EU/UK are playing with the Edge of It.
The opposite of statism = the indi and freedom.
It’s funny that MDN doesn’t get it – or are they just pretending? Remember what happened a few years ago when Trump became POTUS for the first time? How phone tapping became ubiquitous in the US? Except for US citizens? And how the US got around it by having Britain do it for them? Have you really forgotten about that? The ‘5 eyes partnership’ that share their info and of which both US and UK are partners in? Sorry, but you guys are so easily fooled that you don’t deserve better …
Yea I remember how Obama did that illegally. Pepridge farm remembers too. What you and your ilk dont get, is a clue. And you never will. The US has. Cry more bitch.
Enabling Advanced Data Protection (ADP) for iCloud enhances security by applying end-to-end encryption to more data categories, but it comes with several disadvantages:
1. Risk of Data Loss: If you lose access to your account and recovery methods (recovery key or trusted contact), Apple cannot help you recover your data since it does not hold the encryption keys.
2. Device Compatibility: All devices linked to your Apple ID must run the latest operating systems. Older devices that cannot update must be signed out of iCloud, which could be inconvenient.
3. Limited Web Access: Turning on ADP disables iCloud.com web access by default. You can re-enable it, but each session requires authorization from a trusted device and is limited to one hour.
4. Partial Encryption: Some data types, like iCloud Mail, Contacts, and Calendars, remain unencrypted to maintain compatibility with external services.
5. Metadata Exposure: Certain metadata (e.g., file types, sizes, and timestamps) is not protected by end-to-end encryption even with ADP enabled.
These trade-offs make ADP suitable only for users confident in managing recovery options and willing to meet its technical requirements.
Fuck No UK!!!! Which means five eyes has it, which means everyone has it…
Donald Trump should just tariff the sh*t out of the U.K. for even suggesting this requirement.
Under its present Labour (aka Neo-com) administration, the UK is having a hard time.
This madness is crazy and could have come from only an underachieving member of the idiorati.
says the man who knows little of what he types 🙁 ……
Hyped up story. Bullshit.