UK government demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
www.bbc.co.uk
The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.

UK government is trying to get into iCloud end-to-end encryption. (Again?)

Makes me think about email servers too. Most of my private information is in emails, and not only I use a service where the host machines access the email, so do almost everyone I email to/from.

  • CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    121·
    7 hours ago

    People don’t want to hear this but an iPhone, with the right settings, is the most secure phone outside of a pixel running GrapheneOS. This is something that Daniel Micay himself would say often.

    • Nursery2787English
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Last I heard it’s the only phone with a dedicated encryption chip, so encryption of everything doesn’t burn your battery. Is this still true?

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Crypto instructions have been standard in CPUs for decades now. I don’t know about mobile CPUs specifically, but the AES instructions have been around since 2008.

        • Nursery2787English
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Yeah but phones have had a problem where using the main chip for encryption would basically use all the battery. For a while Apple was the only one who didn’t have this issue because they included dedicated chips to handle the encryption. So they were even able to jump in to the “whole phone encryption” by default. While android phones had to leave it as a checkbox in settings that would eat your battery.

          I just don’t remember if google ever got around to addressing the issue.

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            2 hours ago

            I’ve always Android phones with encryption enabled, since about 2014, and I’ve never noticed any issue, nor had I heard about this before.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      5 hours ago

      And yet the other day I read an account of researching tracking for ads, and the iPhone used sent a request to Facebook even before anything was installed

      A bit of a different thing, but still.

      I’m thinking CalyxOS for my next phone.