Apple fought the law and — contrary to the song lyrics — it won. Years later, Apple decided it would get ahead of the law enforcement curve by attempting to engage in client-side scanni…
Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act::Apple fought the law and – contrary to the song lyrics – it won. Years later, Apple decided it would get ahead of the law enforcement curve by attempting to engage in client-side scanning of iPhone users’ content. That worked out less well for Apple, which (at least momentarily) decided making governments happy was more…
While they should absolutely do that, instead of breaking E2EE, I’m afraid that this just an attempt at scaring legislators into not passing the law, and that apple will cave the second it is actually enacted.
These techsters are showing their whole ass these days.
The only claim they’ve got to being in any way necessary to our society is the illusion that people need to be on their platforms/devices. Their gambit here indicates that they have been eating way too much of their own dogfood. Humans got along just fine without so much as a pocket watch for millenia, we can handle losing Apple.
edit: I know nothing about the law this is responding to and I don’t really care to bother understanding it; this is Brexit UK and there is nobody at the wheel, everyone is aware of this, so I’m sure the bill is just as toxic and ultimately self-destructive as their reaction to it.
Meta and Google are ceding the territory of serving news here in Canada based on a similar protest, and I am SO here for it.
Totally different kind of laws. The Canada law makes the tech companies pay for news that get from other sources. I’m not sure I agree with that link tax, but I see the reasoning. The UK law outlaws end to end encryption, which is anti consumer in my view.
I don’t actually agree with my government, I’m just amused that that - a tax - was all it took to make them cede the territory. We found the news just fine before FB and google, we will find it again without them. It’s a net win for us, IMO.
Not so much the E2E, that is a disaster - I just see the question of corporate capitulation to authoritarianism as a question of “when” rather than “if” so I don’t much care what shithead politicians do, the more obnoxious the better at this point, and I have zero faith that a corporation will lead the fight that saves us from their fuckery.
You didn’t read the article, and fell for the headline. It’s a security law, removing iMessage is enough to leave the encrypted messages market. They’re still gonna sell phones.
They will likely remove FaceTime and iMessage, not exit the market entirely. But on a worldwide scale the UK is a small market. China and EU are far more important to Apple.
I mean the tech exists to add a layer of encryption to any communication method. It might need to be applied manually or require a custom app to do it automatically, but public/private key encryption is public knowledge at this point.
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While they should absolutely do that, instead of breaking E2EE, I’m afraid that this just an attempt at scaring legislators into not passing the law, and that apple will cave the second it is actually enacted.
I mean, this kind of snooping just makes you want to exit the UK in general…
These techsters are showing their whole ass these days.
The only claim they’ve got to being in any way necessary to our society is the illusion that people need to be on their platforms/devices. Their gambit here indicates that they have been eating way too much of their own dogfood. Humans got along just fine without so much as a pocket watch for millenia, we can handle losing Apple.
edit: I know nothing about the law this is responding to and I don’t really care to bother understanding it; this is Brexit UK and there is nobody at the wheel, everyone is aware of this, so I’m sure the bill is just as toxic and ultimately self-destructive as their reaction to it.
Meta and Google are ceding the territory of serving news here in Canada based on a similar protest, and I am SO here for it.
Totally different kind of laws. The Canada law makes the tech companies pay for news that get from other sources. I’m not sure I agree with that link tax, but I see the reasoning. The UK law outlaws end to end encryption, which is anti consumer in my view.
I don’t actually agree with my government, I’m just amused that that - a tax - was all it took to make them cede the territory. We found the news just fine before FB and google, we will find it again without them. It’s a net win for us, IMO.
Not so much the E2E, that is a disaster - I just see the question of corporate capitulation to authoritarianism as a question of “when” rather than “if” so I don’t much care what shithead politicians do, the more obnoxious the better at this point, and I have zero faith that a corporation will lead the fight that saves us from their fuckery.
it would be so funny if in a couple of years you can buy and Iphone in Russia, but not in the UK.
Lol, no they won’t.
You didn’t read the article, and fell for the headline. It’s a security law, removing iMessage is enough to leave the encrypted messages market. They’re still gonna sell phones.
They will likely remove FaceTime and iMessage, not exit the market entirely. But on a worldwide scale the UK is a small market. China and EU are far more important to Apple.
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Finally the iconic red phonebooths can shine again and big ben will be the primary source of the time in London. Oy, it’s seven bong.
I mean the tech exists to add a layer of encryption to any communication method. It might need to be applied manually or require a custom app to do it automatically, but public/private key encryption is public knowledge at this point.