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.

  • Autonomous User
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    18 hours ago

    Only possible as iOS fails to include a libre software license text file. We do not control it, anti-libre software.

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        4 hours ago

        How we going to remove its backdoor when it bans us from changing, controlling, copies of its source code?