I hope someone hacks all the UK gov iCloud accounts and leaks the contents.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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Apple should put a big notification next to Advanced Protection that says “sorry, we can’t offer this in the UK because they want things to be less secure for you. Please talk to your MP about this”
Governmental advocates for mandatory backdoors have no clue that they effectively make encryption moot. UK users will only be silghtly less secure with no encryption vs. backdoored encryption.
And they’ll do so under the pretense of “will nobody think of the children” while prominent Brits have gotten away with raping kids practically in the open. They didn’t even need encryption, they had people willingly turning a blind eye.
"If you're not high enough in the British class order to have institutional protections against raping children, then maybe you don't deserve rights?" -British Lawmakers, probably
What makes you so sure of that? I'm pretty sure they know and plan to exploit it themselves.
They want a backdoor so they can use it, but so can everyone else if they know where it is. In some ways, that makes it worse than having no encryption at all because it gives you the illusion of safety when in reality, if people know how to jiggle the handle of your door the right way, they can walk right into your living room at any time.
And any really unscrupulous actors will just setup their own encryption...
It's apparently very important to the UK that the USA has easy access to spy on their citizens.
Of course it is, remember the Snowden leaks showed the five eyes spied on citizens for each other to get around domestic laws preventing that.
In the default configuration of iDevices, the US already can
This seems more around the UK wanting to spy on its own citizens more easily
Will somebody PLEASE think of the children?!
/s
I think of the children. I think they should be banned from the internet. It would solve so many technical and social problems.
@cyrano UK : round knives bad, encryption bad, privacy bad... for your own good.
American kept the worst bits of British culture when they broke up, but they're still really good pals and feel like they should trade ideas back and forth all the time. Hope that the Cheeto pulling a Fascist coup puts a bit of separation between them.
This is a good ad for their “advanced protection” feature
Brutal. The UK is a third world country now.