It reads like the opening acts of a villain in a James Bond movie. The British government last month ordered Apple, in secret, to create a security backdoor into all content uploaded by iCloud users. Even scarier, their demands extended to all iCloud users, around the world, including encrypted, with no further legal blocks. Forget the fact that they could follow legal routes, and subpoena records as needed. No, they demanded access to everything. So far, it appears that Apple has completely rejected that idea, based on privacy, but also technical reasons of the fact that encryption keys are based outside of their view and control.
Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post.The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies.
Found at 9to5mac.com
