Apple’s come out strongly against a proposed UK regulation to weaken encryption. That follows on the heels of Tim Cook saying to 60 Minutes that the company is against compromising encryption for the benefit of intelligence agencies. The reasons for this aren’t hard to understand, and one wishes that candidates and politicians on both sides would avail themselves of some basic technical and mathematical knowledge before proposing solutions like backdoors or “Golden Keys.” This excellent piece from former Apple exec Jean-Louis Gassée last week lays out the issues in pretty easy-to-understand fashion: …Golden Keys are vulnerable. They’ll have to be…