Security expert Alec Muffett noticed that the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has quietly stopped telling high-risk individuals to use encryption to protect their data on its website.

Muffett says the original NCSC document has been “wholesale deleted from the internet,” but the Wayback Machine has it stashed away.

In October, the agency released a document advising barristers and solicitors to deploy encryption tools. The link to that document has been redirected to a sanitised page that only mentions Apple’s Lockdown Mode. This “extreme” setting disables various features rather than securing data properly.

ADP is the Job Mob’s end-to-end encryption system for iCloud backups. It prevents anyone—including the Apple and the authorities—from snooping on stored data. It saves Apple from all that pesky work obeying court orders while protecting its paedophile and criminal fanboys from being arrested by coppers armed with a warrant.  

The UK government recently ordered Apple to build in a backdoor and the tech giant threw its toys from the pram and pulled ADP from Blighty.

Apple is taking the fight to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), challenging the UK’s demand for unfettered access to encrypted data.