UK government demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
www.bbc.co.uk
The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.

UK government is trying to get into iCloud end-to-end encryption. (Again?)

Makes me think about email servers too. Most of my private information is in emails, and not only I use a service where the host machines access the email, so do almost everyone I email to/from.

  • CleverOleg [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    131·
    12 days ago

    People don’t want to hear this but an iPhone, with the right settings, is the most secure phone outside of a pixel running GrapheneOS. This is something that Daniel Micay himself would say often.

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeOP
      6·
      12 days ago

      And yet the other day I read an account of researching tracking for ads, and the iPhone used sent a request to Facebook even before anything was installed

      A bit of a different thing, but still.

      I’m thinking CalyxOS for my next phone.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        Crypto instructions have been standard in CPUs for decades now. I don’t know about mobile CPUs specifically, but the AES instructions have been around since 2008.

          • NewOldGuard [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
            3·
            11 days ago

            This is not true. You may be thinking of the Secure Enclave, which Apple processors have had for a while and acts as a dedicated piece of silicon to protect encryption keys. But pixels have this too, idk about phones with Qualcomm or exynos SOCs but they likely have something similar. Either way it has no impact on battery life and all major smartphones have been capable of encryption for many years

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            12 days ago

            I’ve always Android phones with encryption enabled, since about 2014, and I’ve never noticed any issue, nor had I heard about this before.

          • Gayhitler@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            11 days ago

            The other post covered how it was the Secure Enclave not just having a cryptographic piece of silicon, but what was for a while unique to Apple shit was the use of Secure Enclave for biometric data like fingerprints and whatnot.