Privacy Wins: Opportunity for Secure Tech to Reinforce Trust
The UK's potential backtrack on demanding a backdoor to encrypted user data signals a significant shift in the privacy vs. security debate, leaning towards user privacy. This creates a powerful commercial and marketing opportunity for tech companies, especially Apple and others prioritizing end-to-end encryption, to reinforce their commitment to user security and trust. It also highlights a growing market demand for truly private digital services. Companies can leverage this sentiment to market products like secure messaging apps, VPNs, and cloud storage that explicitly offer strong encryption and no backdoors. Cybersecurity firms can also offer consultation on privacy-by-design strategies.
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UK May Backtrack on Controversial Demand for Backdoor to Encrypted Apple User Data
Posted by u/Fer65432_Plays•07/21/2025
Top Comments
u/nicuramar
I’m also glad they back off, but the rest of your comment isn’t really true, at least not to a very high degree.
For the vast majority of iMessage users, for instance, Apple can ultimately a
u/9-11GaveMe5G
You don't understand what you're talking about.
u/nicuramar
I’m also glad they back off, but the rest of your comment isn’t really true, at least not to a very high degree.
For the vast majority of iMessage users, for instance, Apple can ultimately a
u/nicuramar
Great… IF it happens. I guess we’ll see. I’m already surprised that Apple removing ADR is enough for the UK, since it’s well known that there is another way to get iMessage to be end to end w
u/Swizzy88
"May"
They'll get their invasion of privacy one way or another.
u/HorsePecker
Good, it’s pathological.
u/hungry_bra1n
I hope so. Seems very dangerous.
u/IsThereAnythingLeft-
Good, it was ridiculous to start with
u/doxxingyourself
Well good I guess but I suspect the Americans are angry about because they want exclusive rights to this kind of mechanism…. So my arms aren’t really touching the sky
u/doxxingyourself
Which is in practice a built-in documented security flaw
u/nicuramar
Great… IF it happens. I guess we’ll see. I’m already surprised that Apple removing ADR is enough for the UK, since it’s well known that there is another way to get iMessage to be end to end w
u/Dizzy_Bottle_5785
Glad they’re backing off forcing backdoors just weakens security for everyone. You can’t have privacy “exceptions” without opening the whole system to risk.
u/hungry_bra1n
I hope so. Seems very dangerous.
u/Mokmo
Backdoor=documented built-in security flaw.
u/dcondor07uk
You’re confusing the possibility of access with the intentional creation of access.
Yes, Apple can potentially access some iMessages if users have iCloud backup enabled (because backups incl
u/nicuramar
What is that supposed to mean?
u/nicuramar
No, that’s not the case. No backdoor would be implemented like that, that would be idiotic. Some backdoors have used *un*documented security flaws, but that’s risky. Better approaches is some
u/doxxingyourself
Which is in practice a built-in documented security flaw
u/tommyk1210
Something like an extra key = a documented built-in security flaw.
u/9-11GaveMe5G
You don't understand what you're talking about.
u/Mokmo
Backdoor=documented built-in security flaw.
u/jcunews1
You should still be concerned because they still hold power. Who knows what will they do next. Their goal is for the better, but their method is for the worse.
u/jcunews1
You should still be concerned because they still hold power. Who knows what will they do next. Their goal is for the better, but their method is for the worse.
u/brakeb
UK: "let's make sure we can backdoor all encryption"
\*US puts a shitweaseal in play\*
UK: "you know, encryption ain't so bad..."
u/Swizzy88
"May"
They'll get their invasion of privacy one way or another.
u/HorsePecker
Good, it’s pathological.
u/tommyk1210
Something like an extra key = a documented built-in security flaw.
u/Dizzy_Bottle_5785
Glad they’re backing off forcing backdoors just weakens security for everyone. You can’t have privacy “exceptions” without opening the whole system to risk.
u/nicuramar
What is that supposed to mean?
u/blueSGL
If I were being generous I think the user means 'antithetical'
as in, a backdoor is antithetical to encryption.
u/dcondor07uk
This isn’t about Apple’s internal architecture quirks. The topic is state-mandated backdoors that force companies to build in deliberate access for third parties. Whether iMessage is “technic
u/blueSGL
If I were being generous I think the user means 'antithetical'
as in, a backdoor is antithetical to encryption.
u/IsThereAnythingLeft-
Good, it was ridiculous to start with
u/nicuramar
No, that’s not the case. No backdoor would be implemented like that, that would be idiotic. Some backdoors have used *un*documented security flaws, but that’s risky. Better approaches is some
u/doxxingyourself
Well good I guess but I suspect the Americans are angry about because they want exclusive rights to this kind of mechanism…. So my arms aren’t really touching the sky
u/dcondor07uk
You say “that would be idiotic,” but that’s exactly what governments demand, documented, accessible-by-design “extra keys.”
Whether you call it a second key, escrowed access, or “lawful int