The British government seems to have discreetly rubbed the encryption advice from the government’s web pages, just a few weeks after requiring access to the stolen door to the encrypted data stored on the Apple Cloud storage service, iCloud.
The change was spotted by the security expert Alec Muffet, who wrote in A blog article on Wednesday The fact that the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) of the United Kingdom no longer recommends that high-risk individuals use encryption to protect their sensitive information.
The NCSC in October published a document entitled “Cybersecurity tips for lawyers, lawyers and law professionals”, which advised the use of encryption tools such as the advanced protection of Apple data (ADP).
The ADP allows users to turn on end -to -end encryption for their iCloud backups, which effectively made the way impossible for anyone, including Apple authorities and the government, to view the data stored on iCloud.
The URL hosting the NCSC document now redirects to a different page This makes no mention of encryption or ADP. Instead, he recommends that individuals at risk use Apple locking mode, an “extreme” safety tool that restricts access to certain functions and features.
Muffet reports that the original document, always accessible via The Wayback machinehas been “wholesale of the Internet”. Techcrunch could not find encryption advice on the British government’s website.
The British home office and the NCSC did not answer Techcrunch questions.
The deletion of encryption councils occurs weeks after the British government has secretly ordered that Apple to build a stolen door which would give the authorities access to the encrypted iCloud data from users.
Following the prescription, reported for the first time by The Washington PostApple has drawn its ADP functionality in the United Kingdom, and has confirmed to Techcrunch that the functionality will no longer be made available to new users in the United Kingdom, and its current users should possibly deactivate it.
Apple challenges the order of access to data in the United Kingdom in the Inquiry Tribunal (IPT), Financial time reported this week.
