It seems that the British government has quietly scrubbed coding advice from government websites, a few weeks after asking for access to the back door to encrypted data stored on Apple’s cloud storage service, iCloud.

The change was spotted by security expert Alec Muffet, who wrote in A blog post on Wednesday That the UK’s National Cyber ​​Security Center (NCSC) no longer recommends that individuals with high risk coding use to protect their sensitive information.

The NCSC published a document in October entitled ‘CyberSecurity Tips for Barrasters, Solicitors & Legal Professionals’, which advised the use of coding instruments such as Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP).

ADP enables users to turn on end-to-end coding for their iCloud backup, making it effectively impossible for someone, including Apple and government authorities, to see data stored on iCloud.

The URL offered by the NCSC document now redirects to a Different page It makes no mention of coding or ADP. Instead, it recommends that individuals who are at risk use Apple’s locking mode, an ‘extreme’ security tool that limits access to certain functions and functions.

Muffet reports that the original document, which is still accessible via The wayback machine“Wholesale from the Internet has been removed.” TechCrunch could not find any coding advice on the British government’s website.

The British home office and NCSC did not respond to TechCrunch questions.

The removal of the coding advice comes weeks after the UK government secretly ordered Apple to build a back door that would give the authorities access to users’ encrypted iCloud -data.

To the order, which is the first time through The Washington PostApple has drawn its ADP feature in the UK and confirms to TechCrunch that the feature will no longer be made available to new users in the UK, and that the current users should eventually deactivate it.

Apple challenges the UK’s data access order in the Investigative Forces Tribunal (IPT), The financial times This week reported.