Comment by ARandomerDude
15 days ago
In 10 years we'll all be shocked to discover this headline should have read "US Tells UK to Demand Apple Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor".
15 days ago
In 10 years we'll all be shocked to discover this headline should have read "US Tells UK to Demand Apple Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor".
Why would you suspect that the US pushed their hand on this? This is not out of character at all for the UK.
Thats what Five Eyes does and always has done. It asks other countries for info on their own citizens so that they do not have to break their own laws in accessing their data directly.
How does Apple have any interest building encryption back doors?
Here's Apple documenting the end-to-end encryption scheme for retrieving Push Notifications: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
Here's Apple admitting that they just bugged the Push Notification server so the NSA could read them without MITMing anything: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...
Suffice to say, they don't even have to backdoor the encryption to give the UK what they want. iOS users are like fish in a barrel, if you force some insecure paradigm on them they can either adopt it or leave.