Britain Drops Request That Apple Create a Back Door (nytimes.com)

…for now.

UK no longer has the leverage to have an impact on Apple.

Also we definitely trust that the Brits just gave up, right? They had nothing in exchange, no guarantees to be able to access the data in other ways…

Also, the tweet is only about protecting American people. I personally still don’t feel very safe about it and keep my backups local, thanks.

The government will continue to use exploits to access devices of interest instead of the horrifically stupid idea of baked-in backdoors in encryption.

I feel safer already.. :|

Similar to the other post, the only proof offered for this is a tweet from Tulsi Gabbard. From the article:

> Apple didn’t respond to requests for comment, nor did the British Home Office

Some later discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44950600