Comment by throw0101d
15 days ago
See also "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts":
> The law, known by critics as the Snoopers’ Charter, makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government has even made such a demand. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-e...
* https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology...
> The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25) (nicknamed the Snoopers' Charter)[1] is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which received royal assent on 29 November 2016.[2][3] Its different parts came into force on various dates from 30 December 2016.[4] The Act comprehensively sets out and in limited respects expands the electronic surveillance powers of the British intelligence agencies and police.[4] It also claims to improve the safeguards on the exercise of those powers.[5]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016
See also "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"
Not just "see also." Your link is the original reporting.
Without journalists and organizations like these doing hard, expensive work like this no one -- not even on HN -- would know about it.
It's a shame that the link being used for the HN entry is to a blog re-writing other people's work, and not doing any of that work or sharing any of that expense themselves.
Correct link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-e...
No, I don't care if there's a paywall. Credit where credit is due is something your mom should have taught you when you were five.