Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: end to end encryption

I hope one day that our Online Digital Rights, Civil Society, Safety & Privacy advocates will remember that “online harms” fall into *three* categories:

2025/02/07
From 2018: “Apple iCloud: State firm hosts user data in China” | BBC News

2025/02/07
In This Blog Post: Links to Media coverage of the UK Home Office TCN / Technical Capability Notice demand for a backdoor into iCloud & iMessage Backups

2025/02/07
Ready-Made Twitter Search for “APPLE: UK HOME OFFICE TCN ON IMESSAGE ICLOUD BACKUP ENCRYPTION BACKDOOR”

2025/02/07
“[ @UKHomeOffice ] orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts [iCloud Backups]” | WaPo | …and now we wait to see how Apple responds

2025/02/07
Former UN Rapporteur David Kaye: “for anyone who ever argued for key escrows, i offer you the example of the muskovites rampaging through USG systems” | Ofcom, please take note…

2025/02/03
US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency strongly endorses use of robust, unsurveilled End-to-End Encrypted Messenger software; it would be bizarre for #Ofcom to oppose this

2024/12/18
Proof of the universality of the “safety activist crusades to undo demonstrable technical benefit to all because of fringe issue…” trope

2024/12/04
ICYMI: (3 months ago) UK ‘desperately exposed’ to cyber-threats and pandemics, says minister [@peterkyle of @SciTechGovUK]

2024/11/12
ICYMI: Encrypted messaging app developer moves out of Australia after police visit employee’s home

2024/11/12
Two online safety questions I beg @DCMS @IWFhotline @LordsCommsCom @Ofcom @SciTechGovUK @onlinesafetycom @peterkyle @CPhilipOfficial respond to…

2024/11/12
All these people asking “can my husband find out who i voted for?” — yet we’re still supposedly having a debate about messenger software giving people “too much privacy”

2024/11/01