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Here’s something I don’t understand: if the UK blocks e.g. Apple from releasing (in the UK) an iOS update with security fixes, won’t that just be a massive cana

by Doches 3y ago

Here’s something I don’t understand: if the UK blocks e.g. Apple from releasing (in the UK) an iOS update with security fixes, won’t that just be a massive canary when that same update goes out to the rest of the world? How is that not a giant, flashing “your old 0-days still work here!” sign to hackers and intelligence agencies the world over? Isn’t the only way to avoid this to assume that the UK can block such updates…globally? Which is on the surface absurd; we settled the “can an island rule a continent?” question centuries ago…

coldcode 3y ago
Any sufficiently stupid law is indistinguishable from madness. Politicians who want laws that actually make no sense don't care if they make sense, they want some end result regardless of whether it is possible. Like the infamous quote from Australia "in Australia we obey the laws of Australia, not the laws of math". Reality eventually wins, but not before people or countries are damaged forever.