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UK government demanding access to encrypted iCloud (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Gayhitler@lemmy.ml 41 points 5 months ago (22 children)

Set an iCloud recovery passcode. It removes the ability to recover your iCloud account by verifying that you’re the owner but it also removes the ability of Apple to be compelled to access it.

Op: read about pgp/gpg. Do it now. When you don’t understand something ask questions about it instead of giving up.

Email was never intended to be private. It was never designed with privacy in mind and your use of a client employing an encrypted connection to your mail server does not solve the problem because tens of thousands of mail servers use unencrypted connections.

No one needs your iCloud to read your email, they can just look at the plaintext mail coming to and from the server.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Op: read about pgp/gpg. Do it now. When you don’t understand something ask questions about it instead of giving up.

While that's usable for files, they cannot use it for the app backups and conta ts and such that the system creates on iCloud

[–] Gayhitler@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah people affected by this would have to turn on adp (iCloud recovery key) and be vigilant about how precisely Apple chooses to remove that feature assuming the uk government doesn’t back down.

Worst case scenario you’d need to be doing local backups and have iCloud turned off.

Metadata is a bigger worry at that point though.

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