UK, US Hold Private Talks in Bid to Calm Apple Encryption Feud | Bloomberg | …the UK IC’s demands are leaking like a sieve
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112801
#EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #surveillance
UK, US Hold Private Talks in Bid to Calm Apple Encryption Feud | Bloomberg | …the UK IC’s demands are leaking like a sieve
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112801
#EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #surveillance
@Rusty @dragonarchitect well, it's because @mozillaofficial fucked up #FirefoxOS, #SailfishOS was run into the ground, #webOS got neglected, #Microsoft halfassed #WindowsMobile and #Apple refuses to license #iOS to 3rd parties.
@zak @zenbrowser : a still unfixed vulnerability: if NOT using Touch ID, on some websites you may be able to sign in using a passkey WITHOUT authenticating locally - using biometrics or your passcode (screen unlock code).
This vulnerability also exists WITH Touch ID set up, provided that "Password Autofill" is disabled.
BTW this vulnerability also permits access to:
• https://icloud.com
• https://account.apple.com
(When asked to provide your fingerprint, tap the X at the top right and tap in the "Email" field one more time).
This is a HUGE risk for people who do not want to use biometrics: if a thief grabs their iPhone when unlocked, or watches them enter their passcode and later steals their iPhone, the thief can use ALL of the owner's passwords and some of their passkeys stored in the "Passwords" app (formerly known as iCloud Keychain).
This increases the risks of theft as shown by WSJ's Joanna Stern in https://youtube.com/watch?v=QUYODQB_2wQ.
In addition, a (grand) child or anyone else who (shortly) borrows your iPhone/iPad may have access to more of your cloud-accounts than you're aware of.
Workaround if you don't want to use biometrics to unlock your iPhone/iPad (this does not fix any problem if a thief learns (or successfully guesses) your passcode (screen unlock PIN or password):
• Set up a Touch ID anyway, for example for your left pinky finger (if you're righthanded)
• Disable "iPhone Unlock" in "Touch ID and Passcode" (visible in the first screenshot).
• Use a safer password manager (such as KeePassium) than the Apple "Passwords" app (iCloud KeyChain).
In any case:
• Make sure that "Password Autofill" (in settings -> "Touch ID and Passcode") is set to ENABLED;
• When you enter your passcode in a public place (such as a bar, bus or train), make very sure that nobody gets to see you enter it.
So, here's my actually-planned-for-this-year #MARCHintosh project. Attached is a photo of four very dusty containers full of floppy disks. These are the actual disks from my childhood IIfx!
Most of these disks aren't original. The originals lived at Dad's workplace. He would periodically bring home software from work, make a copy of the disks, and return the originals to work. These were, I'm told, the "off-site backups", in case there was a fire at the workplace or something like that. But we also had all this software installed on the family IIfx so Dad could read any files that he brought home from work with him.
Of course, we also bought our own software for the home, and those are mixed in with these disks as well. And that stack of CD-ROMs in the top left are my MacAddict cover disks - those are already archived.
Anyway, because these are just consumer-grade diskettes, they degrade quicker than the professionally-manufactured original ones. I've already lost a few, so I want to get these archived! And of course, anything that doesn't already exist on the Garden will be uploaded there and shared on #GlobalTalk as well.
(expect this to be a long-ass foone-style thread with lots of updates over several days)
"US politicians and privacy campaigners are calling for the private hearing between Apple and the UK government regarding its alleged encryption-busting order to be aired in public."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/apple_uk_encryption_hearing/
"Colloquially, the IPA is referred to as the Snooper's Charter since its aims are to legally empower intelligence agencies with greater surveillance powers."
Dear Apple,
When you finally do deliver your new AI for the iPhone, it's really important that you make sure the off switch works. It's going to be the first and only feature I use.
Sincerely,
Mil ... SHUT THE HELL UP Siri! I WASN'T TALKING TO YOU!
Ignore me at your peril (or at least the very real threat of a small economic boycott from the Chez Miasma household)
Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/629940/apple-siri-robby-walker-delayed-ai-features
Will you join over 1.9k people who’ve signed our petition to keep what’s stored on Apple iCloud encrypted?
The UK government is gambling with our security and playing into the hands of hackers and criminals.
Send a message: save encryption before more services are hit with technical notices.
Sign and share now
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
‘Absurd’
When you have the press and civil society camped outside the courtroom, the secret might be out
Even so, we’re still denied the reasons why the UK government wants to take a battering ram to our security and privacy.
It shows contempt for the public interest in the Apple encryption case.
An die Studis im #Fediverse:
Wer von euch hat seine Bachelor-/Masterarbeit in #Apple #Pages verfasst?
(Bitte keine Kommentare zu Word/LaTeX)
Must read William Goodwin Computer Weekly on the secrecy surrounding the case #Apple-#UKHomeOffice
"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"
The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.
The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.
Other services will be hit.
https://therecord.media/google-refuses-to-deny-it-received-uk-tcn
Sign our petition https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
No one really knows how the game is played
The art of the trade
How the sausage gets made
We just assume that it happens
But no one else is in
The room where it happens.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
The battle for encryption happens TODAY. Your right to privacy and security will be decided behind your back.
We call for the hearing to be made public.
Encryption must be protected from this slippery slope.
Sign and share our petition to have your say
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
"This is a significant test for the battle between law enforcement and technology.”
Holding the Apple case in secret makes the legal process more cloak and dagger, less scales and sword.
It makes it harder to challenge the UK government's order to break encryption and creates a dangerous precedent.
This case sets the stage for more shady encryption-breaking orders to be made.
Can someone please point out to #Seytonic that this isn't new and that #Apple is not only able but very much willing to implement #Govware #Backdoors.
Pretty shure he'd be cool checking out infosec.exchange...
@skinnylatte IDK if @geerlingguy has sone content re: #macOS beyond using it to setup #Ansible.
Break the silence: Save encryption!
The UK government wants to be able to access anything, anywhere, any time — from your pics to your docs.
It begins with Apple. Other services will be next. That's why we must take a stand NOW!
Sign and share our petition
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
The message is clear across the political divide: let's hear it!
The UK government should argue in open court why they want to make us less secure by ordering a backdoor into Apple encryption.
A secret Tribunal would be an affront to the privacy and security issues at stake. It must be held in public.
Read the joint letter from ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship
Bipartisan US Congress Members want the secrecy around the UK's encryption-breaking order to be lifted.
"It is imperative that the UK's technical demands of Apple - and of any other US companies - be subjected to robust, public analysis and debate."
“Secret court hearings featuring intelligence agencies and a handful of individuals approved by them do not enable robust challenges on highly technical matters.”
UK MPs have joined the chorus of voices wanting the Apple case to be held in public.
"If the Home Office wants to have effectively unfettered access to the private data of the (innocent) general public, they should explain their case in front of the public."
David Davis MP.
"People deserve to know what's happening to their private personal information."
Victoria Collins MP.