Tag: Government Demands

  • Hacker News: Apple’s Best Option: Decentralize iCloud

    Source URL: https://www.mnot.net/blog/2025/02/09/decentralize-icloud Source: Hacker News Title: Apple’s Best Option: Decentralize iCloud Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the implications of a UK government order for Apple to create a backdoor into iCloud for accessing encrypted data. It evaluates Apple’s potential responses, including compliance, leaving the UK market, or…

  • Schneier on Security: UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/uk-is-ordering-apple-to-break-its-own-encryption.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: UK is Ordering Apple to Break its Own Encryption Feedly Summary: The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring them to break the Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud…