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.
Ahh, the good old government backdoor. Maybe they should ask the Americans how well that went with their telco equipment…
Or how it’s currently going with Elon’s installation of unauthorized, networked hardware in many vital government agencies.
“The only good backdoor is my backdoor.”
Hmm, that sounds worse than I meant it to.
Can confirm, they have a really good backdoor.
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“The only good back door is my wife’s back door”?
The problem about a backdoor is anyone can get into it. If you need evidence, please see above.
Why are we talking about my mom?
Reminder that the CISA group investigating Salt Typhoon was disbanded by the current nazi administration. Quite disturbing to think how many devices might still be compromised while the investigation has been abandoned.