UK accused of political ‘foreign cyber attack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple | Computer Weekly (www.computerweekly.com)
from Redditsux@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2025 03:23
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US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users.

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ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2025 03:39 next collapse

There’s about to be three eyes because I wouldn’t trust shit coming from the U.S. right now. The UK should back down so there’s 4 eyes. 🤓

Naich@lemmings.world on 25 Feb 2025 07:24 next collapse

I would have thought the US spooks would jump at the chance to get their hands on some ripe, juicy unencrypted data. I thought that’s what 5 Eyes was all about.

skepller@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2025 16:10 next collapse

Yeah, kinda confusing.

They want the UK kicked out of the “spying group” because it was… spying?

pHr34kY@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2025 21:25 collapse

I think the US are just upset because UK didn’t want to share.

If all 5-eyes countries collectively bullied Apple into handing over the keys, they’d be all for it.

Between all of them (AUS/CAN/NZ/UK/US) I don’t think the UK would get voted out over this. Australia has wanted encryption backdoors for years, and make it a criminal offence to refuse decrypting data at government request.

jonne@infosec.pub on 25 Feb 2025 08:32 next collapse

Sharing intelligence with a country that is threatening you with tariffs at the drop of the hat seems stupid to begin with.

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2025 10:00 collapse

Imagine how much damage Trump will do once he starts wielding his dictatorial powers using big tech companies and cloud providers. If he banned them from servicing any country he could cripple their governments and critical infrastructure, who are all dependent on some combination of Windows / Azure, AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, etc.

If he wanted to invade canada the fascist secret police could push updates to all of Canadas Windows, Apple, and Android devices — that bricks them like ransomware at a set time and date — and disable all their cloud services; crippling the entire economy without firing a shot.

America’s former allies need to start the transition to Linux and non-US/distributed services NOW. It would take a decade under the best of circumstances.

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 25 Feb 2025 12:21 collapse

Probably wise to even ditch US based distros like Debian and Fedora too.