Shocking intrusive order in the UK on Apple to create a backer in the encrypted data of iCloud users not only affect the British; It can be used to access the private data of any Apple account owner in the world, including Americans. Less than a week after security experts were alarming in the report, the US Congress tries to do something about it.
The Washington Post reported On Thursday, in a rare demonstration of the modern bicamerality of the Capitol Hill, Senator Ron Widen (D -or) and a member of the House of Representatives of Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wrote to the new national intelligence director Talsi Gabbard, asking her to take the action of Thwart Observation of the UK, including restriction of cooperation between cooperation And divorce of intelligence, if the country refuses to fulfill.
“If Apple is forced to build a bacdor in its products, this Backdoor will be in phones, tablets and computers of Americans, undermining the security of these Americans, as well as countless federal, state and local authorities, which are entrusted with reports, confidential data to Apple products” – according to reports, Biggs and Widen. “The US government should not allow what is actually a foreign cyber attack conducted by political means.”
The couple told Gabbard that if the UK did not abandon her order, she should “overestimate the arrangements and cybersecurity programs in the field of US cybersecurity, as well as the exchange of US intelligence with Great Britain.” Widden is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and BIGGS is in the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives and heads the subcommittee for crime and supervision of the federal government.
Widen, reportedly, began to distribute the draft bill, which, if it is adopted, may at least complicate the process for the UK authorities. The proposed modification c 2018 Cloud Act It will make information requests for American companies by foreign organizations more burdensome, demanding that they first receive the order of the judge in their country. In addition, this would forbid other countries (for example, oh, say, … Great Britain) from demanding changes in encryption protocols for products or services of companies in the United States. Requestful problems will also be provided with jurisdictions in us, not foreign courts.
The order of Great Britain, first reported To The Washington PostIt requires Apple to create a Backdoor in your advanced data protection, a function presented in iOS 16.2 in 2022. Extended data protection applies through encryption to many types of data iCloudIncluding the backup of devices, the contents of messages, notes and photographs, which makes them inaccessible even for Apple. The order requires a common opportunity to access the fully encrypted user data, when wherever the goal is.
The order was issued under The Law on the Commercies of Great Britain 2016Famous (not so with love) as the “Charter of Snuper”, which expanded the electronic powers of observing British intelligence and law enforcement agencies. There would be a criminal offense for Apple to publicly confirm the receipt of the order, so the company did not comment on this issue. Security experts warn that the introduction of this backdor will be unnecessarily exposed to anyone with the Apple account by foreign spyal, hackers and competitive countries.
According to reports, Apple received a draft order last year, when UK officials discussed changes. In a written representation, protesting with them, the company said that the planned order “can be used in order to force such a company as Apple, which will never build the rear door into its products to publicly withdraw critical security functions from the British market “. The company can appeal the notification, but cannot use the appeal to delay compliance.
“Most experts in the democratic world agree that what the UK proposes will weaken digital security for everyone, not only in the UK, but throughout the world,” said Karian Martin, former executive director of the UK Cybersecurity Center, not only The Washington PostField