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Re:Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Ba... by pmlnr on Friday February 07, 2025 @01:59PM (#42976177)
No, the government is always exempt. Citizens shouldn't be allowed e2e, the government, that's ok.
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Re:Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Ba... by selendym on Friday February 07, 2025 @02:32PM (#42976533)
The problem with this line of thinking is that the government is, of course, composed of... individual citizens.
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Re:Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Ba... by pmlnr on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:53PM (#42977360)
I don't want them to be, they make themselves exempt.

It's bad. It's one of the causes that triggered the French Rebellion in 1793: one rule for them, one for us?

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Re:Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Ba... by Kim_Bruning on Friday February 07, 2025 @07:50PM (#42979248)
They do seem to think that way sometimes, don't they?

But the counter-argument here is: if the civilian E2E apps had also/already been backdoored, they'd be entirely out of options now.

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