Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
www.bbc.com
Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33197558

BBC News - Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

  • “In a statement Apple said it was “gravely disappointed” that the security feature would no longer be available to British customers.”

Washington post - Apple yanks encrypted storage in U.K. instead of allowing backdoor access

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Not really caving. The alternative was to provide the government an encryption backdoor. That’s what the UK feds asked for.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    For those in the UK: reminder that you can still back up locally to your computer to an encrypted file; you don’t need to use iCloud.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Yeah but not… really. They could all circumvent this easily enough (mailing you bits of your family until you give them the password is a classic technique), this just weakens their own or ally countries with no benefit to them directly. Anyone who they actually want access to is going to be using encryption some other way now, so really this just makes their job more of a pain in the ass.