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UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted
In a stunning escalation that confirms our worst fears, the UK government has finally shown its true hand on encryption — and it’s even worse than we predicted. According to a bombshell repor…
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. We are quite literally in the midst of dealing with the catastrophic fallout from the Chinese Salt Typhoon hack — where state-sponsored hackers exploited a government-mandated backdoor in our telephone infrastructure to conduct widespread surveillance. Given Trump’s current antagonistic relationship with federal law enforcement, he might be uniquely positioned to recognize this for what it is — a foreign government demanding the power to spy on Americans, including him personally.
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