{"id":15211,"date":"2025-02-11T09:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=15211"},"modified":"2025-02-11T20:28:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T04:28:39","slug":"dont-know-whats-going-n-in-the-uk-but-its-got-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/02\/11\/dont-know-whats-going-n-in-the-uk-but-its-got-to-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t know what’s going on in the UK, But it’s got to stop!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UkThe Washington Post reports<\/a> that the UK government is demanding Apple provide them backdoor access to users encrypted iCloud data.<\/p>\n

This is nothing particularly new for government. The FBI has been famously turned down by Apple when it came to their demands for decrypting lock codes of alleged criminals iPhones.<\/p>\n

What is disturbing is that the UK is making this demand under cover of its “Investigatory Powers Act<\/em>“. This sneaky, slimy, law makes it a criminal offense for the company under demand to say anything about being under notice, demand, or request.<\/p>\n

\"0_MI5So the UK government knows that they\u2019re doing something shady, and they want to do it in complete darkness.<\/p>\n

They do allow an appeal to a secret panel and judge.\u00a0In other words the appeal process is just for show.<\/p>\n

This demand for a back door doesn\u2019t just apply to British citizens, the UK government wants the ability to spy, snoop, violate privacy, of anyone in the world who is using Apple iCloud.<\/p>\n

Their justification is, as it always is with totalitarians, that they need this access to insure public safety<\/span><\/em> and they<\/em><\/strong> can be trusted not to abuse this ability.<\/p>\n

We can bet that they\u2019re making, or have already made similar demands of all other encrypted cloud services. But we will never know if that\u2019s true, and we can never know who complied, because of the double super secret provisions of “Investigatory Powers Act<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

So the continuous assault on Personal Privacy goes on. This is important because in the Apple ecosystem, iCloud is sort of a central piece. It\u2019s so central to Apple device functionality that Apple gives everyone a little iCloud storage space when they buy their first iPhone. At that low level, it\u2019s mostly about iPhone backups and settings.<\/p>\n

Most people increase the amount of iCloud storage available because if you have several devices it\u2019s convenient to have access to your all of your data from every device.<\/p>\n

\"ChamberDo you want someone, without your permission, looking at your backup data? How about documents, text messages, photos, movies, or literally anything you\u2019ve stored in the cloud?\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t.\u00a0I could live without iCloud. In fact I could live quite nicely with local storage and not have anything in the cloud. But that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n

A lot of people can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Most people, due to Apple\u2019s marketing of User Privacy<\/strong> being one of Apple’s top concerns, have a reasonable expectation that their data will be encrypted and that no-one including Apple can access that data.<\/p>\n

If Apple gives the UK backdoor access. Then privacy is gone. China will next be demanding their own access to user data, then it\u2019ll be Interpol. All the while the US government will be quietly taking data dumps from “Five Eyes\u201d member nations. Using that data to spy on its own citizens but being able to deny that they are. Our intelligence agencies will shrug their shoulders and say they can\u2019t control what information is shared with them in a data dump from other intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n

The UK government has become the ultimate representation of a \u201cKAREN\u201d and their surveillance and free speech, or rather, their definition of hate speech, policies are the biggest reasons that I have no desire to visit.<\/p>\n

You know what? I\u2019m good with that too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even if Apple were to turn off encryption for all phones operating, or purchased in the UK, it still wouldn\u2019t meet the requirements set forth in the “Investigatory Powers Act<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fine with the UK, UKing all over their own people. Their people apparently like this stuff.<\/p>\n

I draw the line at them potentially expanding their bullshit beyond their little islands. I\u2019m not impressed or interested in helping the UK assuage its feelings of inadequacy by invading my privacy. In fact, to the best of my knowledge I don\u2019t have contact with any UK citizen or business. I believe that is true for at least the past 20 years. So why would they have any remote need to access my encrypted iCloud data?<\/p>\n

The iCloud data they want backdoor access to may include heath data (from my watch), location data from all my devices, frequented location data, digital ID, private journal data, financial data, and via my contacts application, all my business associates and \/ or friends.<\/p>\n

\"NotavlecaseBut what they\u2019re really interested in are my mean tweets, or off color Facebook posts, they want to know if I\u2019m twerking on tictok, or have appeared in blackface on instagram. (After all I\u2019m not Justin Trudeau)<\/p>\n

Remember, authorities in the UK have repeatedly, and quite boldly, said they\u2019ll come for Americans on American soil if we speak poorly of their muslim invaders, their shitty leaders, or their insane transsexual, transvestites, from Transylvania, on social media.<\/p>\n

Like all \u201cKARENS\u201d the UK government seeks totalitarian control over everything and everyone. They want a Utopia. There\u2019s only one catch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Utopia requires a mechanistic homogeneity of thought, and pesky humanity is renown for individuals that refuse to comply.<\/p>\n

Which leaves totalitarian Utopias only one viable option. Their elites must be content to rule over a graveyard.<\/p>\n

I personally think there can be no Utopia without it being a totalitarian state. But I\u2019m nobody of interest.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hoping that since this has been exposed and is appearing in news reports in main stream media that the idiot \u201cKARENS” in the UK will back down. They probably will, for at least 9 months to a year.<\/p>\n

When they think the average Joe isn\u2019t paying attention they\u2019ll issue another slimy “technical capability notice\u201d and this time, they\u2019ll make sure they gag anyone who might blow the whistle.<\/p>\n

The UK is trying out the George Orwell path right now. They\u2019ll move on to the mass graves anytime, and then finally will have the Utopia they\u2019ve always wanted.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have to see what Apple does. I think perhaps it\u2019s time to reconsider using any cloud storage media for anything.<\/p>\n

Why make it easy for some bored fucker with nothing better to do, issue you tickets or screw your social credit score because you, at one time, 20 years ago said the \u201cN\u201d word, or called a bunch of Iraqis \u201cSand N****rs\u201d.<\/p>\n

I admit I think it would be interesting for the Metropolitan Police of London to show up at someone\u2019s door here in the US to attempt to arrest them for a mean tweet.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m honestly not sure if that would result in body bags draped with the British flag, or that we\u2019d find our law enforcement folks are willing to violate the US Constitution, specifically the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

Given some of the videos of the Metropolitan Police asking nicely to enter someone\u2019s home to arrest them of a violation of their morality and speech codes, and the potential arrestee hanging out the window saying \u201cNo! Bugger off, you gits!\u201d<\/p>\n

I think the Metropolitan Police would be quite shocked at the way Americans handle such things.\u00a0<\/p>\n

British people are way more polite than we are.<\/p>\n

Might be worth having some popcorn ready for that show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post reports that the UK government is demanding Apple provide them backdoor access to users encrypted iCloud data. This is nothing particularly new for government. The FBI has been famously turned down by Apple when it came to their demands for decrypting lock codes of alleged criminals iPhones. What is disturbing is that … <\/p>\n

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