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Re:The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple U... by jeroenhd on Saturday October 04, 2025 @05:47PM (#45477017)
> I hope Apple tell the government where to shove their requests

They complied with the previous request, and stopped because the US government pressured the UK government because they didn't want US nationals to also fall victim to reduced security.

I'd love to see Apple stand up this time, but given their history I don't think it'll happen beyond a miffed comment on a blog somewhere.

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Re:The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple U... by jonplackett on Saturday October 04, 2025 @06:04PM (#45477131)
If they do it once though, they’ll have to do it everywhere that asks. I hope they can see they’re standing at the top of a very slippery slope.

I also hope our idiotic government starts to go deal with the country’s _actual_ problems sometime soon instead of coming up with pointless / dangerous bs ideas like this + digital ID

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Re:The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple U... by Onavo on Saturday October 04, 2025 @06:43PM (#45477411)
There's an easy way out of it but most HN users here would hate it. Apple can just donate to Trump and the problem with the British would go away overnight. Downing Street and GCHQ combined cannot match the coffers of Apple and the greenback is the only currency of power that the whitehouse acknowledges.

At the end of the day, the emperor is happy to yank on the leash of the special relationship so long you pay him off.

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Re:The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple U... by GeekyBear on Saturday October 04, 2025 @08:54PM (#45478051)
> They complied with the previous request

Nope.

They refused to comply, and then publicly announced that they would strip encryption features from UK users before they would add an encryption backdoor.

A threat they later made good on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128253

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