{"id":2809,"date":"2025-03-25T05:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T05:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/more-countries-are-demanding-back-doors-to-encrypted-apps-html\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T05:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T05:14:31","slug":"more-countries-are-demanding-back-doors-to-encrypted-apps-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/more-countries-are-demanding-back-doors-to-encrypted-apps-html\/","title":{"rendered":"More Countries are Demanding Backdoors to Encrypted Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>More Countries are Demanding Backdoors to Encrypted Apps<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Last month, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/02\/uk-is-ordering-apple-to-break-its-own-encryption.html\">wrote about<\/a> the UK forcing Apple to break its Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud. More recently, both <a href=\"https:\/\/therecord.media\/sweden-seeks-backdoor-access-to-messaging-apps\">Sweden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laquadrature.net\/en\/warondrugslaw\/\">France<\/a> are contemplating mandating backdoors. Both initiatives are attempting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2019\/12\/scaring_people_.html\">scare people<\/a> into supporting backdoors, which are\u2014of course\u2014are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/07\/back_doors_wont.html\">terrible idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightbluetouchpaper.org\/2025\/02\/11\/a-feminist-argument-against-weakening-encryption\/#more-56645\">A Feminist Argument Against Weakening Encryption<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2025\/03\/more-countries-are-demanding-back-doors-to-encrypted-apps.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Countries are Demanding Backdoors to Encrypted Apps Last month, I wrote about the UK forcing Apple to break its Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud. More recently, both Sweden and France are contemplating mandating backdoors. Both initiatives are attempting to scare people into supporting backdoors, which are\u2014of course\u2014are terrible idea. Also: \u201cA Feminist Argument [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[646,57,412,979,980,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backdoors","category-bruce-schneier","category-encryption","category-france","category-sweden","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}