Everyone in the tech industry facepalms almost every time legislators try to pontificate on technology, but the British government appears to be trying to set a new record. After putting iMessage and FaceTime at risk, the government is now suggesting that it might ban some Apple security updates.
https://www.justsecurity.org/87615/changes-to-uk-surveillance-regime-may-violate-international-law/
Linking to the original article and not an article summarizing the article.
The court issue is that the UK government wants service providers in the UK to request permission to apply updates including security updates. And they may deny that permission if whatever they’re fixing is currently in use by their national security service.
Ie if the government wants it broken so they can keep exploiting it they will prevent anybody from getting patched.
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Or deny that request, and turn the bug to a back door.
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I much appreciate your TLDR and agree with the take… but manipulating the thread is a 1st class express ticket to my blocklist ☹️👋
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Is there no limit?