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Apple security updates could be banned by British government (9to5mac.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Everyone in the tech industry facepalms almost every time legislators try to pontificate on technology, but the British government appears to be trying to set a new record. After putting iMessage and FaceTime at risk, the government is now suggesting that it might ban some Apple security updates.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.justsecurity.org/87615/changes-to-uk-surveillance-regime-may-violate-international-law/

Linking to the original article and not an article summarizing the article.

TLDR The UK government wants service providers in the UK to request permission to apply updates including security updates. They may deny that permission for national security reasons.

Ie if the government wants it broken so they can keep exploiting it they will prevent anybody from getting patched.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 34 points 1 year ago

This is one step removed from requiring software vendors to add back doors

[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

Or deny that request, and turn the bug to a back door.

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