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I mean they just disabled advanced data protection which allowed normal law enforcement requests to access the data since they are not e2e encrypted if you don'
by dvtkrlbs 1y ago
I mean they just disabled advanced data protection which allowed normal law enforcement requests to access the data since they are not e2e encrypted if you don't use advanced data protection. I really don't think they needed to implement a new backdoor. They would just need implement a procedure that would fast track UK requests.
- gdwatson 1y agoThat didn’t placate the UK government, because it didn’t just want access to British users’ data – it wanted access to any Apple user’s data from anywhere in the world. I suspect that disabling advanced data protection in the UK was meant to let Apple say it was complying as far as it could while fighting the main order.
- alt227 1y agoYou still dont know who was lobbying the UK government to ask for this.
- Aloisius 1y agoApple didn't disable advanced data protection for those who had enabled it. Rather they removed the ability for new users to turn it on in the first place. A future update was going to ask users themselves to disable it in order to continue backing up their phones to iCloud.