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WTF? It was known they had been asked to do this but it's a pretty big concession on their part and a real kick in the balls for individual's privacy & security. Pretty ironic coming from this government (and the last one) who seem to think its ok to just use WhatsApp for anything and everything.

What could possibly go wrong with having a backdoor into a service like this...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... door-order

As Ruth Husko might say, is this about up the arse?

I don’t know if it will make much difference in reality - If you don’t give up your pin to police it’s a 2 year sentence so you must have have some really bad things on your device to decline it. At which point I imagine you have bigger problems.

Mito Man wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 5:44 pm I don’t know if it will make much difference in reality - If you don’t give up your pin to police it’s a 2 year sentence so you must have have some really bad things on your device to decline it. At which point I imagine you have bigger problems.

I'd be more concerned by the fact that there then exists a backdoor into these things which can be exploited by people who don't have your best interests at heart. I'd imagine other tech companies will be forced to do similar and regardless of what you have on there, its really not great.

When the backdoor is in, it is a matter of when, not if, someone finds a way to exploit it. That's the core problem.

My basic understanding is that that's why the feature has been removed? So there's no need for a backdoor as the UK customers will no longer have access to advanced data protection?

Mito Man wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:26 pm My basic understanding is that that's why the feature has been removed? So there's no need for a backdoor as the UK customers will no longer have access to advanced data protection?

That's basically it, yes. Can't demand encryption back door if that countries citizens don't have access to the encryption feature.

Labour are weirdly fucking gibberingly stupid about this stuff. The sort of criminal who's saving evidence of their crime in iMessage and on iCloud really isn't the sort of criminal you need encryption back doors for. They're using Proton mail, their own local nextcloud for storage/sharing, and Signal for messaging, and each of those are so small and lacking in income (for whatever reason) in the UK that they'd just fucking ignore it.

All Labour have done is make literally any vaguely tech literate apple user reduce their chances of voting for them next time around.

DeskJockey wrote: Fri Feb 21, 2025 9:14 pm When the backdoor is in, it is a matter of when, not if, someone finds a way to exploit it. That's the core problem.

This. Did they learn nothing from the fappening?