UK government demands access to Apple users' encrypted data
www.bbc.co.uk
The Home Office served the notice to the tech giant under the Investigatory Powers Act.

UK government is trying to get into iCloud end-to-end encryption. (Again?)

Makes me think about email servers too. Most of my private information is in emails, and not only I use a service where the host machines access the email, so do almost everyone I email to/from.

  • Nursery2787@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Last I heard it’s the only phone with a dedicated encryption chip, so encryption of everything doesn’t burn your battery. Is this still true?

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Crypto instructions have been standard in CPUs for decades now. I don’t know about mobile CPUs specifically, but the AES instructions have been around since 2008.

      • Nursery2787@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        Yeah but phones have had a problem where using the main chip for encryption would basically use all the battery. For a while Apple was the only one who didn’t have this issue because they included dedicated chips to handle the encryption. So they were even able to jump in to the “whole phone encryption” by default. While android phones had to leave it as a checkbox in settings that would eat your battery.

        I just don’t remember if google ever got around to addressing the issue.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          I’ve always Android phones with encryption enabled, since about 2014, and I’ve never noticed any issue, nor had I heard about this before.