UK demands Apple break encryption to allow gov’t spying worldwide, reports say

The United Kingdom issued a secret order requiring Apple to create a bacdor for state security officers in order to access encrypted data, Washington Post said today, citing people familiar with this issue.

UK security officers “demanded that Apple create in reverse, allowing them to extract all the content that the Apple user has loaded throughout the world,” the report said. “An unknown order of the British government, published last month, requires a common opportunity to view completely encrypted material, and not just help in hacking a particular report and does not have well -known precedents in large democracies.”

Apple and many confidentiality defenders have repeatedly criticized government requirements so that Backdoors watched encrypted systems, saying that they would harm security and confidentiality for all users. According to security experts, Backdoors, developed for state use, will inevitably be operated by criminal hackers and other governments.

It is reported that the UK requires access to data protected by end -to -end encryption using expanded Apple data protection, which prevents Apple from seeing user data. Advanced Data Protection is an optional settings that users can turn on for backup iCloud, photos, notes and other data.

“Instead of violating the security promises that he gave his users everywhere, Apple will probably stop offering an encrypted vault in the UK,” Washington said. “Nevertheless, this concession will not fulfill the British demand for access to services in other countries, including the United States.”

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A notification of technical capabilities was published in the UK of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in accordance with the Law on Complete powers (IPA). The 2016 Law, nicknamed the Charter of Snepers and prohibits the unauthorized disclosure of the existence or content of the order issued in accordance with the law.

“Apple can appeal the notification of the capabilities of Great Britain with the secret technical group, which will consider the arguments about the costs of the requirement, and the judge who will weigh whether the request was proportional to the needs of the government. But the law does not allow Apple to postpone subordination during the appeal, ”the post wrote.