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ricketyrackets
lemmy.ml

I dont know how you say: “This is fucking scary” in British English, but in Canadian English, I’d say it like: “This is fucking scary”.

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Telorandreply
reddthat.com

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?

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refaloreply
programming.dev

This is why FOSS is so important. Then you can at least control the app and know that it's not being updated with malicious code.

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Leraje
lemmy.blahaj.zone

For those of you not in the UK, or unfamiliar, its important to understand just how intrusive the gvmt are in terms of privacy and how intrusive they want to be. We are world leaders in gvmt led privacy oppression.

EFF article

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