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Shame
Was there any doubt?
Time for people to find and support alternatives.
Never.
Pussies.
@Proton Wallet it's your time to shine with Drive.
Steve Jobs would have never agreed to this. Tim Cook should rename himself to Tim Cuck.
Hello slippery slope. I smell trust being flushed….
Wouldn’t be nice to have a FOSS privacy oriented iOS alternative with the same level of hardware used by Apple…
UK caved to authoritarianism
The cloud is just someone else’s computer
Centralization is weak… again
I’m gonna go get an android today
Ooof
it do be like that.
I believe that. RIP.
All in a desperate attempt to stop "far right thugs" from being critical of the government.
“Existing users' access will be disabled at a later date.”
How are they gonna do this? If there’s no back door, they can’t decrypt my data, right?
Will they just delete my files or cut me off if I don’t provide the key?
The creep of authoritarianism knows no bounds.
*Checks second hand google pixel prices*
that's what i was thinking too. im wondering if a system update could trigger the decryption.
this is the way.
You mean... A jailbreak?
Yeah, the update just triggers one of my devices to turn off the encryption?
Sounds a bit like a back door though.
It would only be a true backdoor I guess if they forced the update upon you.
Ha you’re right. So by me “deciding” to update my system, I basically agree to the decryption.
Evil.
I dunno why I am so annoyed by this, but no: caving would have been compromising encryption with a backdoor. They went with the only other option available to them, which was to pull encryption altogether.
Wasn’t Tim Cuck also assisting the Chinese government in tracking people at some point? Yeah I agree, Steve Jobs would never have this.
exactly!
Yep. They'll probably put that in the upgrade EULA. I could absolutely see that happening. Almost no one reads them. People mostly upgrad their devices. I don't know how else this forced action is accomplished without a true backdoor.
Womp wah
This is fucken disappointing on Apple. Im gonna have to reconsider my decision going forward with any Apple products and services
UK is a dystopia
I’m assuming passwords and keychain are still encrypted in the iCloud?
“Some types of data will still be end-to-end encrypted in the U.K. by default, Apple said, including passwords on the iCloud Keychain, information on the Health app, and communications on services including iMessage and FaceTime.”
Will this be enough for the "freedom lovers" to get out of that shit ecosystem? Time will tell.
TFW you realize that Google cloud was unencrypted the whole time
Nuance is hard for the Android crowd. They ought to be asking themselves why the UK didn’t even need to demand Google create a backdoor.
Did they give them a back door?
Thankfully not, but removing privacy features from entire countries is pretty bad too. It worrying that although the UK is tiny country they can't risk ignoring pressure from its regime.
I’m already half way there 🤙
put down the mobile device and you won't get hurt
i can't believe i have to explain this to people
these devices have been thoroughly weaponised against you
just
stop
using
them
install linux on your laptop or desktop pc
deprecate your mobile to being purely for SMS and voice calls
go walk around and touch grass and go swimming and commune with the creation of your creator
Incredibly disappointing.
its unfortunate that non of the large companies want to shake status quo. although if they did someone could get assassinated.
someone like apple could just say fuck you. political pressure from people living in uk would be enormous towards their government.
Apple will prevent Apple IDs from working until you disable the feature (unspecified) probation period.
They did a similar thing for older Apple devices where ADP was not supported but you used an account with it enabled. This can space time for users to delete their accounts or disable all cloud features should they want to.
There's no specific time on when it goes from being forced, but Apple is claiming to release documentation for off boarding UK users in the future. Currently UK users are saying their ADP is still on for now, but has an alert saying new users cannot enable it.
Yea, this sucks for sure!
How did Apple Cave? Agency said create a back door and they didn’t. They went to court and as a final option they simply removed the feature. Now everyone’s data in UK will have standard encryption for which the keys will be shared with law enforcement. Better than a back door to end to end encryption. If anyone is to be blame it’s the UK government and its policies.
It’s probably good idea to catch all that gang raped in the UK
Back door only used to catch a serious criminal . I think .
UK caved. When will you rise against this tyranny?
Yikes
Boooo