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date: 2025-02-22
link: https://daringfireball.net/
title: Tyrannical authoritarian state told to fuck off
cited: John Gruber (Daring Fireball)

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Fuck off, indeed.

> The bottom line is that the UK government is proceeding like a tyrannical authoritarian state. That’s not hyperbole. And the breathtaking scope of their order — being able to secretly snoop, without notice that they even have the capability, not only on their own citizens but every Apple user in the entire world — suggests a delusional belief that the British Empire still stands. It’s simultaneously infuriatingly offensive, mathematically ignorant (regarding the nature of end-to-end encryption), dangerous (as proven by the recent Salt Typhoon attack China successfully waged to eavesdrop on non-E2EE communications in the United States), and laughably naive regarding the UK’s actual power and standing in the world.
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> Apple is, rightly and righteously, telling them to fuck off.