The British government seems to have given a quiet encryption advice on the government web page a few weeks after requesting a backdoor access to the encrypted data stored in the Apple’s cloud storage service.
Wednesday, the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) in the UK was found by security expert Alec Muffet, who wrote in a blog post that high -risk individuals would no longer recommend protecting sensitive information.
In October, the NCSC published a document entitled “Cyber Security Tips for Lawyers, Lawyers and Law Experts,” advising the use of encryption tools such as Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP).
Through ADP, the user turns on the end -to -end encryption for iCloud backups, and no one, including the Apple and the government authorities, can see the data stored in the iCloud.
The URL that hosts the NCSC document is now redirected to another page that is not mentioned for encryption or ADP. Instead, it is better to use the lock mode of Apple, a “extreme” security tool that restricts access to certain and functions.
Muffet reported that the original document that can still be accessible through Wayback Machine has been “deleted from the Internet.” Techcrunch could not find encryption advice on the British government website.
The UK home office and NCSC did not respond to TechCrunch’s questions.
After a few weeks after the British government secretly ordered Apple, it was secretly ordered to build a backdoor that could access the user’s encrypted iCloud data.
According to the first report by the Washington Post, Apple has found ADP function from the UK and confirmed that the new user of the UK can no longer be used in TechCrunch, and the current user should eventually disable it.
According to the Financial Times reported this week, Apple is challenging the UK’s data access order at the UK’s investigation authority (IPT).
