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Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide by fsckboy on Saturday July 29, 2023 @03:39AM (#36917845)
>Apple has claimed that they don’t allow China to intercept communications using these keys. They’ve said on the record to the WSJ that they don’t do any combination of these things, and they left very little wiggle room in their denials

There's wiggle room in what you wrote: "Apple doesn't allow China to intercept communications, China just does it on their own" for example is a way to parse that sentence.

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Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide by giaour on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:42AM (#36919245)
That would be a bigger scandal. If Apple's communication protection protocols could be subverted in flight (i.e., not via endpoint compromises) without Apple's consent or active participation, that would imply that the protocols themselves were just for show.
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