Update (October 3, at 2:00 pm UTC): This article is updated to add a commentary by Slava Demchuk, the CEO of Blockchain Forensics and cybersecurity firm Amlbot.
The United Kingdom is again forcing Apple to create a backdoor with the icloud backup services, which raises alarm to cybersecurity and crypto advocates.
According to In the Financial Times, the UK government has ordered Apple to allow access to the icloud backups of British users. The updated request is different from the previous demands that it limits access to UK-based accounts, but critics have argued that the change is still causing serious risk.
There are many mobile wallets, including Coinbase Wallet, Uniswap Wallet, Zerion, Crypto.com Defi Wallet and Metamask, allow users to store air -out Private key ICLOUD backups, potentially expose users to attack due to change.
Despite the major backups encrypted, accessing files allows for the so-called dictionary or brute-force attack, in which the attacking has tried all possible combinations to decrypt the file. Consequently, if an attacking manages to get the backup file, the security depends on the strength of the password of the PagsagnanPT.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to defending digital rights, Says that “this is still a restless overreach that makes UK users safer and less free.
Slava Demchuk, CEO of Blockchain Forensics and cybersecurity firm Amlbot, told Cointelegraph that the implementation of the UK request “can be dangerous for ordinary users.” The number of threats and attacks will increase. It’s simple logic, “Demchuk said.
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The UK is again
The UK government made Similar requests earlier this year, which requires the ability to blanket to view the fully -up -to -date material, not just help cracking a specific account. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the demand uses a power known as a Technical Capability Notice (TCN) under the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act.
The TCN in question was first issued in January, Forcing Apple to either create a backdoor or hinder the advanced feature of data protection-which turns to end-to-end encryption for iCloud-in the UK. A US intelligence leader claimed That the UK has removed this request, but advanced data protection remained unavailable for UK users.
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Crypto roots in privacy active
Bitcoin (Btc), and eventually the broader cryptocurrency industry, both owe their advocacy groups of digital rights. Bitcoin is mainly developed by the so-called Cypherpunks, a pro-cryptographic group that popularly opposed the US government’s classification of cryptography and primary as municipalities to control them.
This tradition is now continuing to be active conducted by the crypto community. Recently, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Blerin European Union’s criticized suggested ”Chat control ”lawwhich will require client-side-side pre-encryption of messages for illegal content.
Buterin featured that the backdoors built for law enforcement “inevitably hacked” and undermine the safety of all. The Electronics Frontiers Foundation also warned that the UK’s new requests will make everything safer.
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