ICLUD: Sudden for extended end-to-end encryption in UK

Apple feels its threat to Great Britain: ICloud no longer allows British customers to activate the expanded end-to-end encryption, as the company announced on Friday. Important data such as iCloud backup, IMESSAGE chat and photos can no longer be fully encrypted.

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Apple is clearly responding to the fact that a back door for iCloud is challenged in Great Britain: According to media reports, the government has instructed the group in a secret system that they already end- There are a secret arrangement for people protected by two and ends to make this access option. Coding.

Apple: not clear to the back door

Apple said in a statement, “We have emphasized many times in the past that we have never created a back door or master key for any of our products or services and we will never do it.” This is “more important than before” the data stored in the cloud by protecting the end-to-end encryption. The company hopes that Great will be able to offer a “future” function in Great Britain again.

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By default, iCloud data such as iPhone backup is encrypted, but is not secured by end-to-end encryption. Therefore Apple can understand this data and sometimes publishes it to law enforcement authorities. Alternatively, icloud users can activate “extended data protection”, encryption is then bound by the device code, which is only known for user-apty, no longer understands data (and if you forget if you forget If you do not help with restoration).

British users must close end-to-end encryption

This “extended data security” may no longer be active in Great Britain from Friday. British users who have previously switched to switch to clearly switch manually if they want to continue using the icloud. Apple cannot automatically turn off the function for existing users, it is called.

Particularly sensitive data such as iCloud synchronized password and health data should remain unchanged by end-to-end encryption-also in Great Britain. For iCloud users in other areas, option also remains to activate extended data protection.

The extended “Investigation Powers Act” makes it possible for Great Britain to send such orders to providers of services with end-to-end encryption. Media reports on the secret arrangement released on Apple also paid significant attention at the international level, as it would also be possible to access such back door to encrypted data. Civil rights activists and security researchers warned of an “unprecedented attack”, and political resistance also stood in the United States.

(Lbe)