The government is suggesting that it might ban some Apple security updates. Under the latest plans, tech companies would need to notify the British government before rolling out a security fix but might be refused permission if it blocks a vulnerability that’s being exploited by security services.

  • zephyreks@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    China (and the US for that matter) don’t need to stop security updates because they can just directly “ask” companies to put in backdoors.