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The artist is the president of the encrypted messaging service signal.
Imagine that the government will secretly weaken the effects of brakes on all cars sold to automakers, so that millions of safety will be recklessly risk. It will be an unimaginable damage.
Unfortunately, this is happening in cyber security in England. Here, Apple has withdrew important personal information protection and security protection of end -to -end encryption in the backup storage service, exposing people and infrastructure to significant vulnerabilities.
Apple is not a villain here. This is not a light choice. The company has invested billions of dollars as a personal information protection company in encryption research, development and market itself.
However, Apple entered the corner after receiving the British government order to reinstate and weaken core personal information protection technology to deliberately engineer not only in the UK but also in the UK as well as the UK.
The government also ordered the company to use the so -called “Snoopers’ CHARTER” to keep the order and use the secrets of safety deterioration to tell anyone.
Instead of Junsu, Apple eliminated encryption from the UK backup and began to complain. This is a decrease in damage but is still harmful. If you are in the UK, iCloud backups, such as sensitive business documents, intimate photos, evidence and financial records, are now vulnerable to hacking, violations, theft and hostile government requests that Apple can resist or resist.
The news is still bad for people other than England. Communication is not maintained within the border of the jurisdiction. Share with British friends and colleagues now lacks protection of end -to -end encryption. The photos of a friend or the confidential information shared with the other party are now vulnerable.
If this can be the object of Apple, we’ve also stopped and trembled for a while when we had a secret order for other technical companies to receive such a secret order, and quietly complying instead of fighting. In particular, business leaders are concerned about trust in other important systems that can be in which they mean what they mean, cloud servers, software and secret endangered.
The UK is part of a dangerous trend that threatens cyber security of global infrastructure. Legislators in Sweden recently proposed a method of forcing communication providers to build a vulnerability of the back door. France is ready to make the same mistake when voting to include “ghost participants” in a safe conversation through a hundred doors. The “chat control” law bothers Brussels.
Core infrastructure, such as aviation traffic control, medical devices and emergency operations, depends on calculating hardware and software. Therefore, protecting security and privacy using powerful encryption is a matter of national security.
The threat is not a hypothesis. Last year, the US government unveiled a salt typhoon attack on the US telecommunications system, and the country hackers in China were able to access the call records, text messages and more intimate information for millions of Americans. Potential victims included President Donald Trump. How did hackers do this? They used the “hundred doors” integrated into the communication system.
The fundamental problem is simple. Encryption is mathematics and mathematics does not discriminate between government investigators and crime hackers. The back door is the back door, and anyone can enter there.
There is a contradiction in the play. If politicians dream of making the UK as a technology hub, you should not try to undermine the foundation of cyber security that executable technology industries depend on.
The government must withdraw the wrongly guided order. Instead of cutting brake cables in a technology car, you need to try to strengthen the security and personal information of technology that forms the world’s nervous system. Business leaders must also play a role, and these dangerous movements are unacceptable, and a company that can vulnerable interest and customer interest by deploying technical license companies to encrypt and protect them.
We have stopped many key operations of our lives and institutions. It should be aware that strong encryption is not a security enemy. Be security. The claim that encryption weakness will make us safer is as bad as dangerous.
