Good job, Britain. The owners of Apple devices in the United Kingdom will be a little less safe movement forward as the company withdraws its safest encryption by the end to the end (E2E) from the country. This move is the answer to the state requests that Apple Build the back In its ICloud encryption feature, which would allow the law to access the clouds of any iPhone user’s clouds around the world under the guilty of national security.
Apple has sold its products for many years as the safest and safest personal electronics available on the market. Since the key pillar of the brand, Apple has consistently pushed itself against government commands around the world to decipher seized devices or install similar wallpapers into their products. China requires that data should be stored in the country, but there is still a encryption system there.
The most famous instance of Apple’s disrespect was when, under the first administration of President Trump rejected The Ministry of Justice requires unlocking the iPhone that the attacker used in a mass shooting in San Bernardin, California. FBI eventually paid the Australian company third party 900 000 USD to Identify the “exploitation chain” And open the device.
After Apple’s decision to withdraw from the UK to withdraw E2e cloud encryption, the company said on Friday Bloomberg that “an improvement of the storage safety in the cloud with the ultimate encryption of more intensely than ever before” and that “it remains dedicated to offer our users the highest level of security for their personal information and hope that we will succeed in the future in the United Kingdom. “
An order in the UK has asked Apple to access the global data of the user under the Law on Investigation Authority in the country, to the law that gives officers the powers for forcing companies to remove encryption in accordance with the “technical ability notification”. Gizmodo contacted the Government of the UK.
Good for Apple to withdraw encryption from the UK rather than endangering his safety.
This is unhappy for the UK users, but it is on their government to insist on weaker security pic.twitter.com/hozfwcydlg
– Alex Miller (@Alexlmiller) 21. February 2025
“Security officials asked not only to allow the Apple Government of the UK to access the encrypted storage in the UK inhabitants, but that the Government of the UK would get access to any encrypted storage in the Apple cloud,” said David Ruiz, an internet privacy expert in Malwarebytes. “To ask for access to the world’s data is so brave, an imperialist maneuver that I am surprised that he has not come from, honestly, now. It can strengthen other countries, especially those in ‘five eyes’, to set a similar application of Apple.” Ruiz questioned. What does this mean for the Great Britain’s privacy with the USA.
The implementation of the law is always seeking new ways of monitoring the guilty of the public protection – Edward Snowden has famously discovered that the draft surveillance was created after September 11, which attracted information about individuals in domestic and abro. But after the genes are removed from the proverbial bottle, it is difficult to bring it back and the possibilities can end up in the wrong hands. Police already have access to an abundance of investigative powers, Proponents of Privacy say, and the public should be very careful in giving them more that might be mature for abuse.
The construction of the rear part in any product of encryption wins the purpose, basically makes the security side. If it is long claimed that the proponents of Apple and Apple and privacy will be able to find and use those backgrounds or demand that Apple provides access to approach. The whole purpose of the encryption end to the end is that no one, even Apple, can access the user’s sensitive data. The background is inherent vulnerability.
The ultimate encryption of ICloud, formally called advanced devices protection, covers data storage, device backup, web tags, voice memory, notes, photographs, reminders and backups of text messages. The way the ADP functions, the data is stored in the cloud, but can only be deciphered locally on the user device, using the key stored in the security component of the enclave safety built in physical in Apple devices. Bloomberg Reports that Apple will not eliminate the encryption of the end to the end for other features, including Imessage, FaceTime, password management and health information. So, for now, it’s all for sure.
Today’s move, Apple basically says that he would rather withdraw E2E encryption and informed the customers that he would be less sure, not to build an open door for the Government of the UK. That’s smart, accident Move Apple even though consumers will no longer have the same amount of security as the other around the world. The encryption of iCloud is important because the service in the past was the target of a hacker that penetrated in celebrity accounts to steal their naked and publish them online in a scandal called “Fappening”.
Of course, since no safety is completely impenetrable, hackers and laws to enforce law still manage to find ways to penetrate the iPhones, which is a billion dollar job for companies like Israel’s NSO Group, which supplies the iPhone -world shooting software around the world . Basically playing a cat and mouse game with Apple-hacheach time hacrs finds exploitation, they are able to use a limited time limited time Before Apple switches on a hole. The ADP was conceived as a way to make it harder to approach it with certain data, although it makes it difficult for users to recover their content if they lose their devices.
The NSO Group and other companies claim that they sell their features only to the governments and implementation of the law and prohibit the software to be used to spy on dissident or journalists. But reporting over the years has put these claims in significant doubt because the NSO software is connected hac’s journalist around the worldincluding Jamal Khashoggi, whose devices are controlled by leading to his brutal assassination by Saudi intelligence agents.
Those who live in the UK will have to disable ADP manually during an indefinite Mirn period to retain their iCloud account. Bloomberg He says Apple will soon publish guidelines about this process.