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Three questions about Apple, encryption, and the U.K.
Two weeks ago, the Washington Post reported that the U.K. government had issued a secret order to Apple demanding that the company include a “backdoor” into the company’s end-to-end encrypted iCloud Backup feature. From the article: The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance…
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U.K. asks to backdoor iCloud Backup encryption
I’m supposed to be finishing a wonky series on proof systems (here and here) and I promise I will do that this week. In the midst of this I’ve been a bit distracted by world events. Last week the Washington Post published a bombshell story announcing that the U.K. had filed “technical capability notices” demanding…