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Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 days ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, I'm assuming you don't know that likening anyone who doesn't want to have all of their personal information viewed to terrorists and paedophiles is the classic "what do you have to hide?" authoritarian argument to spy on everyone all the time.

There have already been plenty of cases of data collected without a warrant just because they could.
Do you still want that data to be collected and used to prosecute you if whichever political party you don't like get in and make something you like doing illegal?
It is impossible to make a backdoor that only goodies can use. The actual terrorists and paedophiles will use a non-backdoored system, meanwhile every criminal organisation and rival nation state will eventually find out how to use the backdoor and get everyone's information.

[–] SleafordMod@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago

I'm not comparing privacy fans to paedophiles and terrorists, that's not what I mean. What I mean is that I want serious criminals to be caught.

I think properly private technology is good to protect yourself from an authoritarian government for example. You could use something like Signal for messaging (I've not used it, but apparently it's good).

But the big popular platforms like WhatsApp and iMessage, which many laypeople use just because they're popular - on those platforms I think it makes sense for law enforcement to be able to access messages, but only in certain circumstances. So maybe Apple could keep the encryption key and they could decrypt someone's messages if a court warrant is issued.

I'm not saying end-to-end encryption should be entirely outlawed. Hopefully services like Signal would still exist. Sure, some criminals might jump to those platforms, but you could still catch some at least, who use big services like iMessage.