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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: UK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov't spying
 wolrdwide, report says
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 08:34:49 +0000
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On 08/02/2025 05:37, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> UK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov't spying worldwide, reports say
>   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/uk-demands-apple-break-encryption-to-allow-govt-spying-worldwide-reports-say/
>    Apple last year opposed UK's secret notices demanding encryption backdoors.
> 
>   The United Kingdom issued a secret order requiring Apple to create a backdoor
>   for government security officials to access encrypted data,
>   The Washington Post reported today, citing people familiar with the matter.
> 
> ... Work to do ;-)


This is batshit crazy, because the genie left the bottle decades 
ago. If Alice wants to communicate secretly with Bob, and if 
keeping the government ignorant matters enough to Alice and Bob 
both, they can do it, and the government hasn't a prayer. We know 
it, they know it, and GCHQ know it. If Apple provide a back door, 
Alices who care will simply go elsewhere than Apple, or even roll 
their own using tried and tested ingredients. The only people an 
Apple back door will ever catch are stupid people with stupid 
secrets, e.g. politicians.

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