The FBI, via Director James Comey’s latest speech, is not the only authority worried about encryption enabled on Apple’s new iPhones. The iPhone 6 launched in China last week and the new encryption capabilities may be behind Chinese authorities launching a man-in-the-middle attack on Apple’s iCloud. This is not a small-scale targeted attack on a few new iPhone owners, but a huge-scale attack implemented on the level of the Great Firewall of China.

GreatFire, which monitors censorship in China, claims the “Great Firewall of China is wiretapping Apple’s iCloud;” GreatFire co-founder Charlie Smith told the South China Morning Post, “We know that the attack point is the Chinese internet backbone and that it is nationwide, which would lead us to be 100% sure that this is again the work of the Chinese authorities. Only Chinese [Internet service providers] and the government have access to the backbone.”

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