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I don’t care what you think of Apple, E2EE is just good for consumers. I wouldn’t send banking information to someone over SMS, but Encrypted RCS / iMessage? Sure.
It’s not about hiding from the law, it’s about hiding from those who break the law.
There’s no such thing as a backdoor only the government can access, this is a concept that the luddites making these laws needs hammered into their brains. Any encryption method that is backdoored is useless. This legislation will turn the UK into a cyber criminal’s wet dream.
The “Online Safety Bill” is fucking horrible. It should be titled “Panopticon Hell Bill”.
I don’t trust Apple either, but clearly their pro-privacy LARP is useful sometimes.
Indeed. No such thing as bad publicity, etc. At least the iPhone-clutching masses on the morning commute will be reading about this now.