<story><title>Apple says it&apos;ll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/apple-imessage-facetime-remove-security-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mihaaly</author><text>I wonder why the UK legislators not preparing a new regulation mandating every keys to every door and safe having a bypass mechanism for government officials.&lt;p&gt;Behind every door and every locked place there could be child pornography and illicit materials hidden!! Every house, every hotel safe are suspects!&lt;p&gt;Criminal oversight, criminal oversight!&lt;p&gt;(and if they think their reasoning for backdoors into online chat and conversation is mandated by this supid reasoning of theirs then it must be valid for all entrance doors of every home and buidlding and every locked spaces as well! Getting easy access to material without assistance or knowledge of the people involved.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll play Devil&amp;#x27;s Advocate (because I enjoy throwing myself into the fray — especially when arguing against a point I actually agree with).&lt;p&gt;No one is mass-sharing their safe of child-porn worldwide with thousands of other child-porn voyeurs.&lt;p&gt;The internet and its ubiquitous accessibility combined with digital image file formats has changed the landscape for those that would fight these heinous crimes.&lt;p&gt;It is indeed a new and special case where a locked safe is not.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple says it&apos;ll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/apple-imessage-facetime-remove-security-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mihaaly</author><text>I wonder why the UK legislators not preparing a new regulation mandating every keys to every door and safe having a bypass mechanism for government officials.&lt;p&gt;Behind every door and every locked place there could be child pornography and illicit materials hidden!! Every house, every hotel safe are suspects!&lt;p&gt;Criminal oversight, criminal oversight!&lt;p&gt;(and if they think their reasoning for backdoors into online chat and conversation is mandated by this supid reasoning of theirs then it must be valid for all entrance doors of every home and buidlding and every locked spaces as well! Getting easy access to material without assistance or knowledge of the people involved.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Eighth</author><text>Anecdotally, I&amp;#x27;ve heard the argument made that police can knock in doors for raids, and they should have the same power over technology.</text></comment>