Strawberry

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[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

...edited but kept a note, it was bugging me.

I remember that case, yeah apple does some good here. I remember 404media running a story about iphones rebooting preventing unlock by police recently( 1 and 2 ). I guess you/they really don't want any present established for that.

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

yea, its a blow to uk user's privacy & security but not caving. Caving would be implimenting a backdoor. Title was a bit of an annoyed initial reaction, sorry there... maybe best to improve it, i'm not sure?

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

yeah I admit 'apple caved' was kinda just a gut reaction 'apple bad - encrypted backup good'.

If they fully caved we likely wouldn't have known about it, they'd have just put in a backdoor and given themselves and/or the uk encryption keys. Denying encrypted backups because of this is probably best.

You could argue apple does have the resources for a a legal battle, but you also can't really expect them to do that. They're not liberty or big brother watch. I doubt that would go well in domestic courts anyway, after that, the ECHR could be sympathetic on proportionallity & art.8 grounds but its a lot of effort.

maybe I should edit the title?

 

BBC News - Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

  • "In a statement Apple said it was "gravely disappointed" that the security feature would no longer be available to British customers."

Washington post - Apple yanks encrypted storage in U.K. instead of allowing backdoor access

I guess removing access for the uk is better than backdooring it in silence. But still, not great.

Also, it is interesting comparing compliance on this with complying with the EU on sideloading apps.

Original title: 'Apple caved and pulled end-to-end encrypted backups in the uk' - record of bad take title

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Embrase, Extend, Extinguish maybe :(

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

such majestic void

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

three for one void! all the void

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago

all hail the void kittens

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

Miez is good Cato, thank Miez for making this day better

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 53 points 3 months ago

looks like you have your Halloween decorations sorted

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

probably quite a lot really, space is limited and we have the whole of human history for someone to decided 'let's bury there'.

[–] Strawberry@sh.itjust.works 43 points 4 months ago (2 children)

cat lawyers are proud

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