It would prompt a sizeable number of users to jump ship. If I don’t want the US government to have a backdoor into my communications, I sure as hell don’t want the UK government to have one.
It seems a good bet that they’ll tell Parliament to go pound sand. Apple have stood up to the FBI and all other LEOs in the US as far as I know. They’re not afraid of MI5. Let the Brits go buy their spyware hack from the Israelis like everyone else does.
I wouldn’t own an Android given any other choice. If the government has an Apple-supplied backdoor into my phone, there’s no point in not just using a Nokia flip phone. Anything I need to communicate privately in that case would be, as you suggest, locally encrypted before sending or passed as samizdat on physical media.
They won’t. “Could withdraw” is just posturing at best and PR wank at worse.
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True, they won’t. they will either ignore the law and the fines will become the cost of doing business or they will get an exemption.
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It would prompt a sizeable number of users to jump ship. If I don’t want the US government to have a backdoor into my communications, I sure as hell don’t want the UK government to have one.
It seems a good bet that they’ll tell Parliament to go pound sand. Apple have stood up to the FBI and all other LEOs in the US as far as I know. They’re not afraid of MI5. Let the Brits go buy their spyware hack from the Israelis like everyone else does.
Jump ship to who? You can guarantee Android phones will have the same issue.
People will just start encrypting text messages themselves if they really don’t want it to be readable by others. The government can’t stop that.
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I wouldn’t own an Android given any other choice. If the government has an Apple-supplied backdoor into my phone, there’s no point in not just using a Nokia flip phone. Anything I need to communicate privately in that case would be, as you suggest, locally encrypted before sending or passed as samizdat on physical media.
Nokia 3210 here I come. Oh I do miss Snake.
LOL! Hear, hear!