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Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months 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?