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Three questions about Apple, Encryption, and the U.K. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/23/t...

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

Google continues its rollout of gradually disabling uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in the Chrome web browser as part of its efforts to push users to Manifest V3-based extensions.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

We at the Internet Society are deeply disappointed that Apple has had to stop offering end-to-end encryption in the UK. The following can be attributed to Dr. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Distinguished Technologist at the Internet Society: 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

this is fucked up www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

As expected Apple has canceled encrypted iCloud storage for UK users rather than capitulate to UK gov and create backdoor for gov to access data. "British customers who already have Advanced Data Protection will be warned later to disable it or lose access to iCloud." by @joemenn.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: Apple said it "can no longer" offer iCloud end-to-end encryption in the UK, and turned off the option to enable it for new users in the country. The unprecedented move comes after the British government demanded a backdoor into Apple's cloud service. techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

The best time to turn on Advanced Data Protection was before the U.K. forced Apple to disable it. If you’re not in the U.K., the second best time is right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Apple will no longer offer iCloud end-to-end encryption in the United Kingdom after the government requested a backdoor to access Apple customers' encrypted cloud data.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Legislators in the US are now starting to push back against the UK’s demand for backdoors in Apple encryption. archive.is/2025.02.13-1...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I'm proud to be among 107+ security experts and organizations calling on the UK Home Office to abandon its push for backdoors into encrypted services. Weakening encryption puts everyone at risk. Read the letter and join the fight for digital security.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

I wrote a bit more about the UK’s recent move to allegedly demand backdoors in Apple encryption. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Research Paper vs Reality **Hey, my new book is out: bit.ly/OOYM

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This seems like a very deliberate attempt to bypass GDPR. “Don’t worry if you don’t consent to us reading your private messages, we’ve made a button so that other participants can consent for you”.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

This is nuts lol

submitted 12 days ago • 189 comments

Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...

submitted 13 days ago • 123 comments

Following up on the recent news about the U.K. government attempting to force Apple to backdoor its cloud encryption, @stamos.org and I wrote this op-ed in the WSJ. www.wsj.com/opinion/u-k-...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Crypto guy in 2014: Crypto will revolutionize finance and change how we interact with money Crypto in 2025:

submitted 12 days ago • 149 comments

The U.K. government's insistence that Apple creates an encryption backdoor undermines our right to private spaces. Apple must resist these efforts.

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 23 days ago • 876 comments

The Chinese have developed their own open-source Hawk Tuah meme coin and the rug pull only uses one-tenth of the computing power and scams 15x the number of horny victims.

submitted 27 days ago • 44 comments