Alex HartFeb 8, 2025
evacide

The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/uks-demands-apple-break-encryption-emergency-us-all

The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All

The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud. Encryption is one of the best ways we have to reclaim our privacy and security in a digital world filled with cyberattacks...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Feb 7, 2025 at 9:01pmWeb
Show threadPhil HaighFeb 7, 2025
@evacide they’ve learned nothing from the telecoms backdoors fiasco. Nothing.
Show threadWTLFeb 7, 2025
@gulfie @evacide 💯
Show threadDavid AnsonFeb 7, 2025
@evacide Seems almost certain the UK issued the same order to Google/Android.
Show threadandrei!Feb 7, 2025

@evacide Calls from governments to break encryption are a sign of ambitions for mass surveillance and mass oppression. This should be the focus of discussion, and not the usual straw men.

Criminal organizations have used unbreakable encryption for decades and would never exchange vital info via tools available to the average citizen.

This targets organizing and activism.

Show threadwiwiwFeb 8, 2025
@andreimoment @evacide is the discussion about specific apps?
Show threadSimple NomadFeb 7, 2025

@evacide The disturbing part is that even if they only allow requests for info from the UK government, there is nothing to keep the UK from sharing it with the rest of the Five Eyes nations, which includes the USA.

Ref. for others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

Five Eyes - Wikipedia

Show threadAIPAC ur bagsFeb 7, 2025
@evacide surely this can only be enforced where icloud servers are in UK territory. If apple then removed iCloud from any UK-based servers, could the data then remain safely encrypted?
Show threadJote 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 8, 2025
@johnkavs not really. As long Apple have customers in UK they would try to enforce or no matter where the servers are located, and they probably will. @evacide
Show threadAIPAC ur bagsFeb 8, 2025
@ailnoth @evacide Microsoft had an interesting case in Ireland about whether EU law applied to the data on them or not. Apparently they got around it, can't rem how
Show threadquangobaudFeb 7, 2025

@evacide
fixed it!

"British Freemasons have demanded that Apple shows them all the good stuff that Johnny Foreigner has."

Show threadKateFeb 7, 2025
@evacide .... and they want to force everybody to keep quite about it when they demand that.
Also UK law in the making wants you to opt out of AI scams when AI is trained using your intellectual property, your data, your holiday pictures, your litte videos of your niece.
Those guys deserve a no pudding policy in their house of parliament. Or something. Idiots.
Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 7, 2025

@evacide

#AtlasNetwork finally succeeded in one of the main aims of fossil fuel funded fascism.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/criminalization-climate-protesters-activists-state-laws-critical-infrastructure-oil-gas-funding/

https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/12/atlas-network-vilifying-climate-protestors/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/mountain-valley-pipeline-protest

Criminalizing protests requires de-encryption for its prosecutions.

Tech bros get most of their money from the fossil fuel industry.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/atlas-network-jeremy-walker-think-tanks-/103041202

https://thestandard.org.nz/atlas-network-in-new-zealand/

https://www.desmog.com/2024/12/09/a-valuable-and-generous-ally-how-exxon-and-atlas-network-worked-to-block-global-climate-action/

https://multinationales.org/en/investigations/the-atlas-network-france-and-the-eu/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cars.12467

https://www.desmog.com/2023/08/22/javier-milei-argentina-atlas-network/

What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies

The Atlas Network’s dark-money junktanks are behind neoliberal policies around the world, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian
Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 7, 2025

@evacide

A murderous petrostate despot desperate to keep his corrupt industry alive.

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got a rare tour inside Apple's new $5 billion campus

Saudi Arabia's millennial crown prince got to see the inside of Apple's new $5 billion campus.

Business Insider
Show threadGeodad478Feb 7, 2025
@evacide The UK is going to fuck around and find out if Apple just gives them the middle finger and pulls out of their market.
Show threadJote 🏳️‍🌈 Feb 8, 2025
@Geodad478 Honestly. There is about zero percent chance they will pull out of a market. I have an iPhone rn. But many things about privacy is kinda bs and marketing. @evacide
Show threadFrans Veldman ⁱ ᵃᵐ ᵃⁿᵗⁱᶠᵃ🚩Feb 8, 2025

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/uks-demands-apple-break-encryption-emergency-us-all

Next up is Signal, as a single instance single app. When do we start to recognize that the internet was designed with decentralization in mind?

The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All

The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud. Encryption is one of the best ways we have to reclaim our privacy and security in a digital world filled with cyberattacks...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Show threadPeteFeb 8, 2025
@evacide People use Apple because it's far safer than Android. Forcing Apple to do this would destroy the brand. If forced to do this, most likely, Apple would simply withdraw from the UK market.
Show threadJohan SköldFeb 8, 2025

@evacide "[...] Apple would be prohibited from warning its users [...]"

What the...?

Show threadAntisap' 🖤 🏴 🎶Feb 8, 2025

@evacide

Everyone should email #TimCook and/or call #Apple !!

I knew this would happen, but hearing about this makes my stomach sick

Show threadgunstickFeb 8, 2025
@evacide apple already did this for china
Show threadB_BirdFeb 8, 2025
@evacide Yet Again !
Show threadEarsmeardiusFeb 8, 2025
@evacide News Just In: Apple is pleased to announce that for enhanced security, rot13 will henceforth replace all other encryption algorithms.
Show threadneeltFeb 8, 2025
@evacide The exact same thing is happening in France. The Senate has just passed an amendment asking developers to leave a "backdoor" so that investigators can gain "readable" access to encrypted content as part of a bill to combat drug trafficking.
Show threadezcryptFeb 8, 2025

@evacide

> "There is no world where, once built, these backdoors would only be used by open and democratic governments. These systems can be, and quickly will be, used by more repressive governments around the world"

One has to question: How open and democratic is a government that wants unrestricted access to its citizens private data, without letting them know about it?

Show threadTh.HampelFeb 8, 2025
@evacide „There is no legal mechanism for the U.S. government to force this same sort of rule on Apple“ - well, not yet.
Show threadmikunycFeb 9, 2025
@evacide It increasingly seems like a room is not secure when the lock on the door is secure, but when you can leave the door to the room open without concern. Door locks are so insecure that picking them is ludicrous. Bypasses are far easier. And in the end, no matter how secure a door is, the wall next to it is pretty easy to go through. - Just saw we can fucking read radiation coming off HDMI cables now and translate to text lol.