{"id":655978,"date":"2025-03-06T16:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/uk-quietly-scrubs-encryption-advice-from-government-websites\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:10:25","slug":"uk-quietly-scrubs-encryption-advice-from-government-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/uk-quietly-scrubs-encryption-advice-from-government-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"#UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.K. government app<\/a>ears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple\u2019s cloud storage service, iCloud.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The change was spotted by security expert Alec Muffet, who wrote in a blog post on Wednesday<\/a> that the U.K.\u2019s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is no longer recommending that high-risk individuals use encryption to protect their sensitive information.<\/p>\n

The NCSC in October published a document titled \u201cCybersecurity tips for barristers, solicitors & legal professionals,\u201d that advised the use of encryption tools such as Apple\u2019s Advanced Data Protection (ADP).\u00a0<\/p>\n

ADP allows users to turn on end-to-end encryption for their iCloud backups, effectively making it impossible for anyone, including Apple and government authorities, to view data stored on iCloud.<\/p>\n

The URL hosting the NCSC document now redirects to a different page<\/a> that makes no mention of encryption or ADP. Instead, it recommends that at-risk individuals use Apple\u2019s Lockdown Mode, an \u201cextreme\u201d security tool that restricts access to certain functions and features.<\/p>\n

Muffet reports that the original document, still accessible via the Wayback Machine<\/a>, has been \u201cwholesale deleted from the internet.\u201d TechCrunch wasn\u2019t able to find any encryption advice on the U.K. government\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.K. Home Office and NCSC did not respond to TechCrunch\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n

The removal of the encryption advice comes weeks after the U.K. government secretly ordered Apple to build a backdoor that would give authorities access to users\u2019 encrypted iCloud data. <\/p>\n

Following the order, first reported by The Washington Post<\/a>, Apple pulled its ADP feature in the U.K., and confirmed to TechCrunch that the feature will no longer be made available to new users in the U.K., and its current users would eventually need to disable it.<\/p>\n

Apple is challenging the U.K.\u2019s data access order in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), The Financial Times<\/a> reported this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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