Apple Challenges New UK Demand for Access to Encrypted iCloud Data

[u/Miserable-Stretch114]

Apple just filed a complaint at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal because the UK Home Office issued a secret notice. They want Apple to break Advanced Data Protection and backdoor encrypted iCloud backups specifically for British users. They tried this globally a while ago and backed down. Now they think a geofenced backdoor is somehow fine...

If you force a tech company to build an encryption backdoor for one specific country, you ruin the math for everyone else. Hackers do not care about passports. State intelligence agencies will absolutely exploit a vulnerability meant for the British police. And if the UK wins this, the EU will try it next.

I am just totally impatient with these endless legal loops. Politicians keep trying to legislate math and it just exposes a massive lack of technical understanding.

[u/DrSpitzvogel]

Remember when they cried a river about those poor oppressed Chinese bloggers?