Computer Weekly:
Matthew Hodgson, CEO of Element, said that the compromise of the US telecoms network by Salt Typhoon showed that surveillance back doors were a “catastrophically flawed idea”.
“Apple should withdraw from the UK rather than comply with this order, and make it clear that becoming complicit in a surveillance state is a line they will not cross,” he said.
Robin Wilton, senior director for the Internet Society, a global non-profit, said that it was “beyond disappointing” that the UK government was using the Investigatory Powers Act to break end-to-end encryption for Apple’s cloud service.
“It is stunning that just days after the UK’s National Audit Office released a report that the “cyber threat to the UK government is severe,” the UK government would launch an attempt to weaken the security and privacy of a service that its citizens, including government employees, rely on,” he added.
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