You are warned – it changes everything.
Let’s keep this short and sweet – or more precisely bitter. The mandate widely reported on Apple to destroy its encryption by order of the United Kingdom Government is a disaster for iPhone users and everyone else as well. It is the most serious obstacle to the personal security online we have seen over the years. If this goes ahead as reported, there will be no turning back.
In a scenario that seems to have come out of Monty Python’s writers’ room, Washington Post It transmitted news that the British government had issued a secret, the so -called “Technical Skills Notice” in Apple, demanding that it provide a background for intelligence and law enforcement in the fully encoded cloud maintenance accounts.
Here is the satirical part – Apple cannot admit that it has been served a notice, or even accept discussions; He cannot update users for what has happened, or even tell them that the safety of their accounts has weakened; It can appeal, but it cannot even expect the appeal to be heard before making changes.
Mredith Whittaker of the signal perfectly summarized it: “Using technical skills notifications to weaken encryption across the globe is a shocking action that will position the UK as a technology leader than a technology leader. If implemented, the Directive will create a dangerous internet security weakness in the nervous system of our global economy. “
After years of back and forth between security agencies, regulators, lawmakers and great technology, with the encryption protected in Hilt, this kills him dead in an instant. Do not make a mistake, there is nothing like this as a safe background. If you weaken the encrypted enclave, then you can assume that it will be used by good actors as well as bad. And if the United Kingdom were to apply this, what is to stop China or Russia to do the same.
The most ridiculous part of this story is that the UK mandate is reported to apply to all iCloud data, regardless of jurisdiction. This would cover the US and the United Kingdom. That has triggered more plot here – but this should not be implemented EVERYWHERE.
As EFF warns, the “any” backdoor “built for the government puts everyone at greater risk of hacim, theft of identity and deceit. There is no world where, after being built, these backgrounds will only be used by governments of Open and democratic. .
So why is this worse than you think. In my opinion – and no one can officially comment, so “views” will be everything we can share – any such government action will not stop with Apple. Not to simplify excessive issues, but a bad actor would simply execute Google’s useful pass to Android software. If the United Kingdom is going after Apple, it is also going after Google and Meta and others. Why wouldn’t they be? But in the Soviet style, none of these other parties can comment or answer questions or confirm or deny.
And so this becomes a weakening of the critical dam by keeping us all safe from Spyware, hackers and data violations. It starts in one place but goes everywhere. Apple has more to lose – it radically changes the iPhone proposal. And so it is a little surprise that this story focuses on Apple. But an attitude must be taken now.
I agree with EFF: “Erigation is one of the best ways we need to recover our privacy and security in a digital world filled with internet attacks and security violations, and there is no way to weaken it in order to To provide only access to ‘good boys “”
Irony at this time is the US government that changes its position for encryption. In the wake of China’s salt tajfun by hacking America’s networks, citizens were required to return to encryption when possible. If this furnace taught us anything, is that the background will be used. Set them for the right reason and they will be used for the wrong reason. Do not make a mistake – if Apple does not successfully prevent this update, it will simply be the beginning of a very dangerous path.