UK law that could ban Apple security updates worldwide is an unprecedented overreach::Proposed amendments to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) which could ban Apple security updates worldwide are an “unprecedented overreach,”…
The headline is a gross overstatement. Sure, a UK law could stop Apple from leasing security updates in the UK, but not worldwide. That’s bullshit. Apple would very likely just tell the UK to fuck off.
How to unbrexit?
Can’t Apple just say “No” like they did with end to end encryption ban? How is this enforceable at all?
Pretty much at that point it comes down to a couple options
- The British government fines them or seizes assets in the UK
- Apple withdraws from their market and takes the revenue hit there
Applexit if you will…
That’s what you get for having tories in government
This is why I only use FOSS shit.
Genuine question: What’s stopping them from using these same powers on FOSS software providers that may be located in the UK?
If they forced the maintainer of some FOSS software to merge in some code, even if the maintainer isn’t even allowed to speak about it eventually someone would notice (since open source), fork the project and just cherry pick out their crap. Then it’s whack-a-mole of trying to keep people from multiplying it.
Or they could claim the software is illegal and have no way to enforce that either.
So basically as long as said software is useful for more than a handful of people, it’s infeasible to try to enforce it (e.g. see how it goes every time some software gets a cease and desist, they end up even more popular than before)
