Crypto Wars: A sharp criticism of the British smelling version for Apple’s ICloud

Apple’s British Secret System, which has now become public, has made an encrypted material from ICloud and other data of all users worldwide at the request of officials in the United Kingdom has made civil rights organizations extremely cautious. Emphasizing Caroline Wilson Palo, head of the International Legal Department at Privacy International, “The British government’s” unprecedented attack “on the private data of Apple users around the world is” unprecedented attack “.” Britain should not break the fight with the fence. “

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The intended attack “makes an extremely harmful example and will encourage misconduct governance worldwide” Takes care of PaloLondon is currently in the process of expanding the investigative powers based on the discovered powers Act, which has been controversial for years behind the closed doors, which has further weakened insufficient security of fundamental rights. Now the British government has clearly decided to completely exploit its potentially harmful monitoring powers and weaken the end-to-end encryption. It eventually “threatens the safety of the Internet as a whole”.

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James Baker from Open Rights Group also Complaints that government encryption has announced warApple must include a back door in your system to follow the instructions. It will also open to cyber criminal. London “Wants to be able to access everything anytime and anywhere.” “The attempt to weaken the basic security is scary, non -respected and will endanger the safety of all”.

According to Baker, the iPhone manufacturer is only one of the several groups that can be subjected to the same arrangement. Orders should also affect WhatsApp, Signal, Threma and other comprehensive encrypted messaging services. At the same time, the government tried to prevent services like Facebook from encrypting its chat services.

Investigators of the European Union for unlimited access

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) American worker Appeal to AppleTo defend yourself against this attempt to reduce the right to privacy and communication. For a long time, iCloud backup law was a brunt for the enforcement officers to access data which would not be available to them on iPhones with otherwise active device encryption. This only changed with advanced data security (ADP) function, but users had to clearly turn on the backup.

EFF warns: “There is no technical agreement between strong encryption that protects the data, and a mechanism that gives the government a special access to this data.” Each manufactured -buc door increases the risk of cyber attacks, identity theft and fraud for all users. Some of the Google backup options and other messaging apps use the same protective mechanisms such as ADP. First, Apple users have access to encrypted data, “Every other safe tool for file sharing, communication and backup is at risk”.

In current crypto wars, the controversial high -ranking groups of the European Union to access data for effective criminal prosecution also call for the “bad problem” of encryption. Representatives of police and judicial officials of the United States and the European Union side asked the principle to include access to unnovated communication data in technology directly with “legal access by design”. A major cyber attack on such monitoring interfaces of American providers recently showed what negative results of this approach could be.

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