I just left apple due to Data reasons government has requested apple release encrypted data they hold on customers so i switched to galaxy s25 or my kids picked it out for me.
The UK government has requested Apple to provide access to encrypted data stored by users on iCloud, specifically through a Technical Capability Notice (TCN) issued under the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA). This demand has sparked controversy, with privacy advocates and some governments raising concerns about potential breaches of user privacy and the precedent it might set. Apple, in response, has reportedly removed Advanced Data Protection (ADP) from the UK market, which is an optional feature that encrypts user files on iCloud.
i believe it's worse than that.
apple actually can't. which is good for security but bad for people who want to see what's in the file.
the data is encrypted and cannot be decrypted without data keys which apple does not have and has no way of finding, unless (a) they torture whoever encoded the file or (b) they spend several zillion years going through all possibible pairs of numbers.
the uk government wants to be able to see future files encrypted by apple software.
any decent cryptographic method should 100% prevent any attempt to access whatever it has encrypted. the uk government is displaying astonishing and f***ing stupid mathematical idiocy of the kind even the school's most ******ed spanner would have gawped at.
the problem is the absurd supposition that encryption methods have some sort of "back door" access method. as a rule, they don't, unless you call factorisation of the product of two huge prime numbers a back door method. it isn't, unless it really turns out that quantum computers can factorise such a number in the snap of a finger rather than the eternity existing computers would take.
so, in fact, the uk government in all its ******ed braindead stupidity is asking apple to stop using sound encryption and to invent a new method with a back door that will be totally crap and unsecure and for which apple can provide to the goverment ways to see the data and very likely allow any hacker with more than three brain cells to work out how see the data.
any decent programmer with mathematical knowledge could write an encryption method that would be all but uncrackable, but the uk government, containing people of such miniscule intellectual ability that the term "halfwit" would be a compliment, wants encryption to be weakened by many orders of magnitude.
and that isn't good, but also isn't surprising.
it would be karma if weakened encryption allowed the theft of the entire famly fortunes of the f***wit government fools involved in this farce. and i would laugh and laugh and laugh.
