BREAKING: Apple is pulling its end-to-end encryption feature — Advanced Data Protection — in the UK, in a stunning development after the government ordered the company to build a backdoor to user data. Apple is not complying.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheMorningStar 12h
Wow! Apple has just given a freehand to the government. Now government can easily get inside phones in the UK.
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71 sats \ 2 replies \ @petertodd 23h
“Apple is not complying.”
Apple is complying. They've turned off the feature for UK customers.
Not complying would be to continue to allow phones in the UK to use the feature, possibly shutdown all UK-based Apple infrastructure, and force the UK government to entirely block Apple phones from contacting Apple's servers outside the UK.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko OP 22h
They're not complying in with building in a backdoor. But I agree, shutting off icloud entirely in the UK would have been the move I wanted to see too.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 22h
They're complying by making the backdoor irrelevant. The only way they didn't comply is by ignoring the truly absurd part of the order to backdoor users globally, which was never going to fly.
And no, I did not say they should shut off iCloud in the UK. They should continue to allow people in the UK to use iCloud, and the advanced encryption feature. Right now they're reportedly adding code to detect UK-based phones and prevent them from using these features.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @redlight_pleb 20h
Makes a pretty good case for building your own “cloud” backup.
Nextcloud on a start9 seems like a convenient solution.
GrapheneOS next.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @69da35f6c3 18h outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.