The United Kingdom has issued a secret order to Apple. It wants the corporation to build a backdoor for Britain’s security services that it could use to access the cloud accounts of any iPhone user across the planet.
As first reported by The Washington Post, Britain issued the order in secret last month. The U.K. isn’t looking to root around in a specific account for a specific security reason. No, it wants free access to all a user’s encrypted material, full stop. The U.K is making the demand under a 2016 law called the Investigatory Powers Act, derisively known as the Snooper’s Charter.
That’s weird coming from the UK. Expect that to be an American 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.
Peasants mad that they’re treated like peasants by the aristocracy and their guards.
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.
Ahh, the good old government backdoor. Maybe they should ask the Americans how well that went with their telco equipment…
“The only good backdoor is my backdoor.”
Hmm, that sounds worse than I meant it to.
The problem about a backdoor is anyone can get into it. If you need evidence, please see above.
