Morning of 13 January 2025
I do not work for the government and I do not care about politics.
The dream
I dreamt about being profiled. There was profiling and some other type of profiling, some detailed profiling and some not so detailed. Keir Starmer came over and commented on how great it is to have a gadget foldable phone. There was a monster we were trying to freeze to death using a freezing gun. The different profiles had different details of profiling. The monster seemed like a black mould that was spreading over a map of the United Kingdom. Freezing it left dark patches. We could not contain it.
I posted the dream that morning for reference (take note the date so that you know I am not lying):
https://x.com/SerialDreamer74/status/1878812927135793200
What followed
The dream was posted on 13 January 2025. No public report of the Home Office order to Apple exists before that date. The Washington Post first reported the order on 7 February 2025, stating it was issued “last month” (January 2025).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
All later coverage traces back to that report or to court filings that still place the notice in January 2025. Apple had warned Parliament in 2024 that the Investigatory Powers Act could be used this way. That was a general warning about the law, not a report that an order had been served.
Amnesty International, 14 February 2025:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/uk-encryption-order-threatens-global-privacy-rights/
“The United Kingdom government’s order to Apple to allow security authorities access to encrypted cloud data severely harms the privacy rights of users in the UK and worldwide… The secret order, which The Washington Post reported on last week, was issued in January 2025 by the Home Office… It concerns Advanced Data Protection, an iPhone function that uses end-to-end encryption on data stored in the cloud… The UK government’s reported order requiring Apple to provide access to encrypted user data is disproportionate by design, as it would weaken data protections for all users… News reports said that the UK government ordered Apple to build a back door into its products under the Investigatory Powers Act, a 2016 surveillance law that includes provisions allowing the government to order companies to remove ‘electronic protection’ of user data.”
Privacy International, March 2025:
https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5547/about-our-challenge-against-uks-secret-powers-qa-tcns-and-apple
“On 7 February 2025, the Washington Post reported that the UK Government had demanded Apple… make changes to how data is managed by their iCloud service… Since February 2025, it has been widely reported that Apple received a legally binding ‘Technical Capability Notice’, requiring it to weaken its ‘Advanced Data Protection’ (ADP) service for iCloud. This notice was reported as having global scope… On 24 February 2025, Apple announced that it was gradually withdrawing ADP for UK users.”
Declassified UK, 18 August 2025:
https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-uk-security-agencies-use-telecoms-firms-to-spy-on-us/
“British spies have required BT to give them access to public communications since 1985… Among Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 were documents that claimed Britain’s GCHQ spy agency had a vast cable-tapping programme heavily relying on UK telecom giants BT and Vodafone… After RIPA 2000 came the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 which repackaged the decades-old powers to force telecommunications companies to do ‘a particular thing’. Its ‘national security’ and ‘technical capability’ notices let the government secretly compel telecommunications operators to weaken the security of their systems, insert vulnerabilities… or remove encryption.”
Computer Weekly, 23 June 2025:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366626070/Police-to-gain-powers-to-grab-online-data-when-they-seize-phones-and-laptops
“Last-minute amendments to a Parliamentary bill will give police sweeping powers to access people’s online services and data, including bank accounts, encrypted messaging services, email accounts, and mobile phone apps, without the need for a court order or independent judicial authorisation… Under the proposed changes… a senior officer will be able to authorise police investigators to extract information from any online account… accessed from mobile phones, laptops or tablets seized by police.”
The reading
This is government profiling, not the knowledge of God. The higher ups in the dream praise the phone and gather the profiles. Some profiles are thick, some thin. The thinner ones do not catch. The thicker ones do. The mould spreads over the map of the United Kingdom. The freezing gun does not kill it. It leaves dark patches.
Mould is difficult to remove. It roots in the material. Surface freezing or surface cleaning leaves the growth underneath. In the dream the freezing leaves dark patches and does not contain the spread.
Scripture treats yeast and leaven as a bad thing that spreads.
“A little leaven leavens the whole lump.”
(Galatians 5:9 ESV)
“Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?”
(1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV)
The same is said of mould in a house.
“If the disease has spread in the house, the priest shall go out… and he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house.”
(Leviticus 14:43–45 ESV)
Because this was a political dream I first thought the mould could have been Reform. It is not. Reform’s colour is turquoise. The mould in the dream was black. It could be Islamic extremism, given the riots that have happened recently in Europe. It could be other things. The dream does not name it.
Scripture shows rulers and authorities set against the people of God.
“Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed.”
(Psalm 2:1–2 ESV)
“The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed… for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel.”
(Acts 4:25–27 ESV)
“Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.”
(Matthew 10:17–18 ESV)
“But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.”
(Luke 21:12 ESV)
“If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.”
(John 15:20 ESV)
“Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?”
(James 2:6 ESV)
The black mould is not named. Best reading that fits the rest of the dream: it is the thing the profiling is meant to find and stop, and the freezing is the attempt to contain it. The attempt fails. The patches remain. The spread continues across the map. Mould is difficult to remove. What is frozen on the surface does not end the growth underneath. A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
The profiling and the praised phone sit next to the mould. The thinner profiles do not catch. The thicker ones do. The mould is what the freezing does not remove. The dream was posted on 13 January. The first public report of the order for access to the encrypted data on the phones came on 7 February.
