Is everything to change?
The furnace after Apple removed the full iCloud security for UK users can feel a long way from US users this weekend. But it is not – far from it. What has just shocked the United Kingdom is exactly what FBI told me that he would like to see in the SHBA the quiet Bureau warning came only a few weeks ago – but suddenly it has become critical.
News in the United Kingdom cannot be seen in isolation and follows the years of fighting between great technology and governments for guaranteed access to coded messages and content to promote investigations into serious crimes such as terrorism and child abuse.
As I reported in 2020, “it seems increasingly likely that security followers from bottom to bottom, Facebook and Apple’s likes, will lose their campaign to maintain user safety as priority.” It’s been five years, but here we are now.
In recent weeks they could seem to signal a unique fork on the road between the US and its five primary eyes, in the United Kingdom, but it is not. In December, the FBI and CISA warned Americans to stop sending texts and using platforms encoded in the country. And now the United Kingdom has forced open iCloud threatening to mandate a background. But the devil is in detail – and we are quickly approaching a dangerous pivot.
Whereas CISA – America’s Cyber Protection Agency – seems to protect for fully secure messaging platforms, such as Signal, the appearance of the FBI seems to be different. When the December encryption warnings were hit in the wake of Typhoon Salt, the Bureau told me as he wants to see coded messages, he wants encryption to be “responsible”.
What does it mean in practice, FBI said, while “law enforcement supports strong, responsible encryption, this encryption must be designed to protect people’s privacy and also manage so that technology companies American be able to provide readable content in response to a lawful court order. keys and can facilitate “the content readable in response to a lawful judicial order.”
There are three main providers of the messages coded from the bottom to the US apple and the UK, Google and Meta. The United Kingdom has just pushed Apple to compromise imessage. And it is more likely that “secret” discussions are also continuing with the other two. It makes no sense to single out Apple, as this would simply push bad actors to other platforms, which will happen anyway, as it is clear to any security professional.
Doing this, the United Kingdom has changed the possible art, bringing a new option to security agencies around the world. And that has done so against the backdrop of that American push for the responsible encryption and push of Europe for “Control of conversation”. The United Kingdom has suddenly given American security agencies a precedent to do the same.
“The FBI and our partners often cannot get digital evidence, which makes it even harder for us to stop bad people,” former director Christopher Wray warned in comments that the Bureau directed me straight. “The reality is that we have a completely uninterrupted space that is fully beyond the fully legitimate approach – a place where children’s predators, terrorists and spies can hide their communications and act with impunity – and we have to find a way of dealing with that problem ”
The United Kingdom has just found that way. It was the first, but if a public reaction does not see the inverted Apple movement, it will not be the last. In December, FBI’s “responsible encryption” warning was lost in the noise of the salt tajfun, but should not be lost now. The world of technology can act shocked and scattered in the UK news, but it has come for years. While the Legalities are different in the US, the intended result would be the same.
Ironically, because the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom share information on intelligence, some US lawmakers have applied for the Trump administration to threaten the United Kingdom with sanctions unless it turns into Apple’s encryption mandate. But this is a political point of view not a view of security. It is more likely that this will go to the other side now. As EFF has warned, the UK news is an “urgent warning to all of us”, and that is exactly.
“The public should not choose between secure data and secure communities, we must be able to have them both – and we can have both,” Wray said. “Collection of items – evidence – is getting harder because many of that evidence now live in the digital field. Terrorists, hackers, predators of children and are more benefiting from the end to the end to hide their communications and activities illegal from us. “
This is exactly the argument that the United Kingdom has just run.