I really hope for the best for Elbakyan.
Sorta related, the Darknet Diaries podcast just did an ep on the Pirate Bay. The ways in which US capital flexes it’s interests on sovereign nations makes me deeply uncomfortable.
FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
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#22Why would you use Apple software/services for anything like this? You know it's backdoored.
What are you going to switch to? Android?
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#23Oh boy, that ever useful boogeyman >“In December 2019, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was being investigated by the US Justice Department on suspicion that she “may” be working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” When you start trotting that out, you know it’s a witch-hunt because if they had real reasons they’d have stated them, since they don’t they offer vague insinuations cou…
If the FBI can use the Russia thing on a presidential candidate, they can use it on anybody.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment shows a gross misunderstanding of the technical differences between 1) basically breaking encryption for all iPhones on the market simultaneously, and 2) copying a file.
Only if the file contents are accessible. Why isn't end-to-end encryption utilized for storage of email on Apple's servers, the same way they do for iMessaging?
Because 99.9999999% of emails are not encrypted before being sent.
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#25Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple has always been subject to US law, and as such, was always required to provide information that they do have access to. If it's in iCloud, most of it can be extracted by the law enforcement with court order. Nothing changed between now and the San Bernardino case. The difference was that FBI wanted Apple to compromise device encryption, which capability does _not_ exist now.
So why hasn't end-to-end encryption been utilized for years with the storage of email and other files, like they do with iMessage content?
You can certainly use E2E encryption (ie, S/MIME) for your email, whether it's using Apple Mail or not. I'm not sure what you suggest Apple can do about it if you don't use PGP/GPG on your side though (and yes, you can use S/MIME for email both with iOS and macOS).
How Apple CloudKit security works is documented [0] and what Apple can provide to the law enforcement is pretty easily googleable [1], and has been subject to much media coverage over the years. All I was saying is that this is not some recent change.
[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec3cac31735/...
[1]: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#27I assume that when the FBI sends a request to a tech company about a user, they probably also contact lots of other tech companies too about the same user...
Which raises the question: Where is the Google notification about the FBI request... How about the Facebook notification? The VK or OK notification? How about the Twitter notification?
Did these tech companies hand over data without notice, even though the orders presumably had the same gagging timeout?
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#28Oh boy, that ever useful boogeyman >“In December 2019, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was being investigated by the US Justice Department on suspicion that she “may” be working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” When you start trotting that out, you know it’s a witch-hunt because if they had real reasons they’d have stated them, since they don’t they offer vague insinuations cou…
If the FBI can use the Russia thing on a presidential candidate, they can use it on anybody.
Not just a presidential candidate, but a president.
Did you know that after all those years of investigations, all those years of the house intelligence committee chairman and others insisting that there was "ample evidence" that Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election... in the end, The Mueller report admitted that no evidence was ever found to substantiate Trump or his associates or campaign ever working with Russians to interfere with the election?
I found that really crazy when I found that out. What's even crazier is that everyone just quietly kind of stopped talking about it. Nobody wants to confront the fact they were badly manipulated, deluded, and lied to. Or they're comfortable with their own reality in which their enemies are the ultimate evil and their side is pure and good.
That's why these things will never be fixed.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And whatever happened to Apple who refused to work with FBI on the San Bernardino shooter but here is only happy to comply in a much less interesting case? Nothing. It's just a matter of technical means. They had no means of unlocking that phone without potentially compromising all the rest of the phones they've made before that point. But Apple account / emails are "in the cloud", so Apple has full access to it.
Apple has always bragged about iMessage content being end-to-end encrypted, and thus inaccessible even to Apple. Why aren't they doing the same with email and other files, like other providers? (ProtonMail, to name one example)
It is technically impossible to end-to-end encrypt email.
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#30They did this to Rudy Guilliani too. FBI was going into his iCloud for over a year. What makes it more egregious was that Guilliani was Trump's lawyer during the impeachment. So the government was both prosecuting him, and spying on his defence's lawyers private emails with his client. If they can do it to a presidents lawyer with no consequences. They can do it to anyone.