Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting.
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My recollection was erroneous, as I can't (easily) find evidence of them rolling over. But the devices in question still got unlocked, so in the end it didn't matter whether Apple (openly or surreptitiously) cooperated.
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Yeah, it's 3rd party vendors like greykey and cellibrite that allow LEO to get around apples security.
To its credit, apple does a fairly decent job of staying ahead of the unlocking tech, but some older hardware and os are easily cracked.
https://cybersecuritynews.com/phones-cellebrite-tool-can-unlock/
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Apple's decision to disable the feature for U.K. users could well be the only reasonable response at this point
Hard disagree. The most reasonable response would be to refuse to comply, organize, and fight it in court. But that would cost them money. And they don't care about their users that much.
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I don't know about other countries, but Apple itself reports that it provided access to customer accounts at the US government's request 90% of the time
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With a warrant.
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Is this Hardware or software dependent when it comes to Android? Do you know? Curious about whether moving to graphene would even matter.
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Sure, but if that's your only concern, then you aren't really concerned that to toggle is removed in the UK, either
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Your definition of “rolling over” is different than mine.
- They’re requiring a warrant for the information. They don’t just hand over stuff at any request.
- They review the warrant before handing over the data. They don’t provide data in 100% of cases.
- They offer users end to end encryption, which would certainly make it difficult for the data recipient to decrypt if the data is handed over.
- They don’t offer the government a “backdoor” to make it easy to decrypt user data.
- They offer users the option to encrypt and store the data locally rather than uploading it to Apple.
What would you have them do differently when the warrants issued are valid in the legal sense/approved by a judge?
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- They don’t offer the government a “backdoor” to make it easy to decrypt user data.
Is what's being discussed. Since Apple has a backdoor in the default configuration of their phone, they're able to comply with 90% of all data requests.
The UK is demanding they remove the option to disable the backdoor in their encryption
You can kind-of sort-of use local only, but Apple makes that very inconvenient and almost 0 users do
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Yeah, i was reading some of the Graphene forum discussion the other day. Basicaly, grapheme is the only os on any hardware that concerns LEO and courts.
Reading about the one country where when graphene is found on a phone they automatically declare it "uncontrolled" and a "criminal tool".
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That is such bullshit. Just because people want their information private doesn't mean they are a criminal. Glad it's useful though. Definitely going to go graphene next. Not fond of getting a pixel, would really like a fairphone or something else more repairable, but security matters more to me.
