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 (DIR) Post #ArMzOpa8r0iVqYLXyy by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2025-02-21T20:38:19Z
       
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       One thing I’m seeing re: today’s Apple news is a lot of people blaming Apple. Saying that Apple is selling people out by withdrawing encryption features from the U.K. market. For example, here’s Tim Sweeney. I want to propose a different take.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArMzOtldIEHkpLkmRs by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2025-02-21T20:38:57Z
       
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       Let’s imagine the following hypothetical. Apple is not asked by the U.K. government to compromise encryption features for only U.K. users. They are asked, by the U.K. government, to compromise encryption features for iCloud users in countries all over the world, including the US.This would be an absolutely crazy request, by the way. It would put the U.K. in the position of controlling the maximum level of security available to any user anywhere in the world, and doing it *secretly*. If you engage with that request, there is no coming back.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArMzOy11UwyO0Ez7zc by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2025-02-21T20:39:53Z
       
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       If you’re Apple in this situation — keeping in mind that you’re dealing with laws that mandate total secrecy, and a government that mixes national security and criminal law — what’s your first move? My guess is that your best strategy is to flip the table.After all, if you disable the encryption feature at issue from all U.K. customers, to some extent the issue appears moot. (It’s not moot, of course. The U.K. would still be asking for access to non-U.K. users.) But it gives you a place you can work from.So I don’t know that this is where Apple is coming from. I *do* know that, despite some deserved criticisms (many from me) Apple has never seemed like a company that just wants to submit and turn off encryption. So I want to propose that maybe, just maybe there’s more here.
       
 (DIR) Post #ArMzP2LNPDd9QWXRGy by matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange
       2025-02-21T20:40:25Z
       
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       And the fact that there’s more at stake here may be important to you, since *your data* might be what’s at stake. //