Crypting wars have reached a temperature, and the most controversial battle did not happen in the United States, where many measures were in the past – such as the government The efforts made to restrict exports of encryption programs Until the nineties and the FBI control with Apple in 2016. It is in the United Kingdom, where the government ordered the Apple to give officials The arrival of a blanket to the encrypted iCloud users Backup. It is claimed that the request was not only applied to UK users – he demanded the arrival of the back door for users All over the world.
The secret matter, I mentioned for the first time the Washington PostIt was issued in January under the auspices of the UK’s Judicial Power Law. Apple’s compliance or rejection of the method of transgressing user – for user information via legislation.
Simply, the message that the UK government sends is that its citizens cannot expect its government to respect its privacy, and that it is ready to endanger its security from all kinds of bad actors such as infiltrators and thieves because she cannot bear it. The ability to have a private conversation online Drilling.
Apple can appeal the ruling to a secret committee, but according to mailReports, the compliance of the request cannot delay during the appeal. The UK’s home office will ban Apple telling users that the government can now reach encrypted backup copies. This clearly creates a big problem for Apple, which has been built in the user’s privacy protection.
“The Security and Monitoring Center project of the Center for Democracy and Technology Center” said Gregy Najim, director of the Security and Monitoring Center of the Center for Democracy and Technology Center, ” Drilling. “It remains to see whether this step to weaken global cybersecurity around the world will keep it, or whether the United Kingdom will decline.”
She did not respond to Apple DrillingRequest to comment.
At the present time, passers -by left guess. “If you do not resume Apple – if we do not see or hear about an appeal – does this mean that they have complied?” Joe Jones, Director of Research and Vision at the International Association of Privacy Professionals said, Drilling. “If they comply, this creates a precedent not only for the United Kingdom, but for many other law enforcement powers around the world.”
It is an Apple policy that responds to law enforcement requests to obtain data. Until 2022, IMessage may be encrypted from run to end, but ICLOD backup was not, so it usually leads to reaching your phone. But in that year, Apple The encryption is carried out by one to the end of the ICLOD backup Under a feature, it is called “advanced data protection”. Despite users You should choose to protect advanced dataThis feature has made Apple compliance with governments less useful for law enforcement than before.
However, security experts say that the company’s resistance to the back paper has nothing to do with taking a position against governments and more than that related to the basic cybersecurity.
Siaran Martin, the former president of cybersecurity at the headquarters of government communications in the United Kingdom – said to the National Security Agency – for cybersecurity at the headquarters of government communications in the United Kingdom – equivalent to the National Security Agency – that governments are closed from reserve copies preserved on the encrypted iCloud. “Because everyone is closed, so that the infiltrators cannot enter.” accident Interview with the BBC. Martin continued, the case facing Backdoors, is that there is no way to build one that allows the law enforcement in and keeps everyone outside. “If you build a door, other people will try to enter,” he said.
But according to Martin, the fact that it is no longer secret can prevent him from being effective. “For the sake of work, he should not be known by criminals and criminals,” he said.
Previous convergences between technology and government companies on BackdooRing are definitely mixed results. In 2016, Apple and the Federal Investigation Office participated in a bitter legal battle on the technology company He refused to open the iPhone for one of the archers of San BernardinoAnd that Tim Cook described as a battle to “help you protect your data and your privacy.” The Federal Reserve needed the password because a few days after the shooting, someone has access to the phone The password reset From the ICLOUD of the lead, the law applying the law effectively lock.
Microsoft refused to provide federal access to law enforcement to emails stored at Dublin Data Center, Ireland, Almost led to the case of the United States Supreme Court – Which was dropped after Microsoft and other technology giants, including Apple, Amazon and Google, He threw their support behind the cloud law.
Looking at the public Apple comments, the company is unlikely to comply with the UK command. “There is no reason to make the United Kingdom [government] Apple told Parliament in March: “It must have the power to take a decision for the world’s citizens whether they can take advantage of the proven security advantages that are paid from encryption from one side to the party,” Apple told Parliament in March.
Instead of compliance, people familiar with the matter said mailApple may stop providing an encrypted storage capacity for users in the United Kingdom-but this still does not address the home office’s claim that the Apple allows its officials to reach the encrypted backup of users all over the world.
Jones said: “The challenge facing this approach is that the UK’s investigation law is outside the ground,” Jones said. These lengthy and prolonged legal processes are also launched to diplomatic and political issues as well. “
