BBC News - Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
“In a statement Apple said it was “gravely disappointed” that the security feature would no longer be available to British customers.”
BBC News - Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
“In a statement Apple said it was “gravely disappointed” that the security feature would no longer be available to British customers.”
yeah I admit ‘apple caved’ was kinda just a gut reaction ‘apple bad - encrypted backup good’.
If they fully caved we likely wouldn’t have known about it, they’d have just put in a backdoor and given themselves and/or the uk encryption keys. Denying encrypted backups because of this is probably best.
You could argue apple does have the resources for a a legal battle, but you also can’t really expect them to do that. They’re not liberty or big brother watch. I doubt that would go well in domestic courts anyway. After that, the ECHR could be sympathetic on proportionallity & art.8 grounds but its a lot of effort.
maybe I should edit the title?
I would leave the title. It’s important that people be critical but willing to adjust opinion.
Apple has fought these in the past (San Bernardino shooting / Phone unlock). It is honestly best for them to never take a case on this issue that they could lose.
…edited but kept a note, it was bugging me.
I remember that case, yeah apple does some good here. I remember 404media running a story about iphones rebooting preventing unlock by police recently( 1 and 2 ). I guess you/they really don’t want any present established for that.