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Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's scary in that they don't understand why that's a bad idea, but it's kind of stupid in that Apple probably can't, if Apple implemented E2EE at all correctly.

Assuming that's true, they can demand all they want, but you can't just:

if government_order == true:
  iCloud.unlock()

...assuming they use any of the usual encryption algorithms.

What is interesting is that they've ordered Apple to do it but (maybe) not Google, which has a much larger share of Android users in Europe. Is the UK iOS-heavy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Assuming that’s true, they can demand all they want, but you can’t just:

if government_order == true: iCloud.unlock()

…assuming they use any of the usual encryption algorithms.

Proton services are encrypted, but if Andy Yen goes full nazi (which he haven't done yet), he could just send you a javascript on the browser UI / update the apps, with code that extracts your keys and sent it over to their servers.

And they could force the update by refusing you to access your data until you've updated.