Apple Against Opening Encrypted Data For Britain

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Apple should just tell UK lawmakers the same thing they told a U.S. judge two weeks ago...it is "impossible" to do this. :rolleyes:

Apple is opposed to a new British law it says would require it to provide authorities with access to encrypted data as it would create vulnerabilities hackers could exploit, Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Wednesday.
 
..it would create vulnerabilities hackers could exploit, Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Wednesday.
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"Well you see Tim, that's why we're demanding this law, we're the ones that want to exploit the people so stop trying to fucking protect them" -GCHQ/NSA
 
Those that know anything about encryption key management, they CAN decrypt it. They don't WANT to do it.

It's called a master private key.
 
wgm3446 said:
Those that know anything about encryption key management, they CAN decrypt it. They don't WANT to do it.

It's called a master private key.
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Except Apple doesn't use a master private key. Every device has a different private key for storage encryption. Every iMessage conversation has a different private key. These private keys are only ever stored on the device. Having a single private key for all devices and messages is terrible security, since then you simply have to steal one key to break all the encryption (something the NSA has done in a lot of those cases).

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/27/apple-explains-exactly-how-secure-imessage-really-is/
 
To UK lawmakers, here's your encrypted data.

^@+gj|fj`nyx+hje+ld+m~h`+cnfxng}nx

Hint: The key is 11
 
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