UK government’s Apple backdoor order is a massive target for criminals

Apropos the UK’s apparent order to Apple to enable surveillance of its end-to-end-encrypted iCloud data, Advanced Data Protection (ADP): someone needs to ask why Apple bothered with ADP if not many people want it. 

And why then it needs to be turned off effectively only in the UK so the UK can spy on those not many people, and what is exceptional about the UK (and so exceptional that it can survive having weaker protection that every other country that isn’t making draconian ultimata to Apple).

Indeed, given the UK now is in a weaker state of protection, the attraction to the bad guys is increased here massively above other countries — the barrier to entry for hackers is lower. Our government has painted a target on us, and explicitly on all the “us” that are not engaged in anything other than every day commerce and discourse.

If I were to use the bicycle lock analogy, it is like we just took away all the couriers’ ABus and Lite locks, and also painted all the old Kryptonite D-locks in bright yellow fluorescent paint to show where the criminals with portable angle grinders and pocket CO2 fire extinguishers should go to steal most bikes.