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@ Miguel Afonso Caetano
2025-02-26 19:54:49
Encryption backdoors are like leaving the door open for a totalitarian society... I don't see why people are unable to understand this...
"If they're going to cave into Zuck's demand to facilitate spying on Instagram users, do we really think they'll resist Kier Starmer's demands to remove Signal – and any other app that stands up to the Snooper's Charter – from the App Store?
It goes without saying that the "bad guys" the UK government claims it wants to target will be able to communicate in secret no matter what Apple does here. They can just use an Android phone and sideload a secure messaging app, or register an iPhone in Ireland or any other country and bring it to the UK. The only people who will be harmed by the combination of the British government's reckless disregard for security, and Apple's designs that trade the security of its users for the security of its shareholders are millions of law-abiding Britons, whose most sensitive data will be up for grabs by anyone who hacks their accounts."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/25/sneak-and-peek/
#CyberSecurity #UK #Apple #Encryption #Backdoors #Privacy #Totalitarianism #iCloud