UK orders Apple to open up users' encrypted cloud data, report says - Reuters
UK orders Apple to open up users’ encrypted cloud data, report says | Reuters:
Britain has ordered Apple to give it unprecedentedly broad access to encrypted user data stored on Apple’s data cloud, the Washington Post newspaper reported on Friday.
The UK government’s “technical capability notice” requires blanket access rather than merely assistance to access a specific account, the paper reported, citing unnamed sources.
A backdoor is a backdoor for everybody, not only for the chosen ones. People tend to think a backdoor works like a cat wearing an NFC that is recognized by a smart door, which only opens for that specific NFC.
In reality, a backdoor is an invite to anybody that is not supposed to get in, but wants to get in. That is, for any hacker.
There can be no backdoors in end-to-end encryption, as there can be no holes in a bucket you want to hold water in.
I can’t believe a democratic and modern government like UK’s is asking Apple to put holes in their water-tight environment.
