Tag: All Writs Act
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FBI plans to keep Apple iPhone 5c-hacking method secret
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 · 8:46 pm · 11 Comments
The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t plan to tell Apple Inc. how it cracked a terrorist’s phone…
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U.S. drops bid to force Apple to help unlock iPhone in Brooklyn after source provided passcode
Friday, April 22, 2016 · 10:51 pm · 37 Comments
The U.S. government said it no longer needs Apple Inc.’s help to get into an iPhone used by a drug dealer…
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Apple refused China access to source code
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 · 5:41 pm · 16 Comments
Apple has refused demands by China to hand over source code, the company’s attorney said…
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Data from San Bernardino phone has helped in probe, U.S. law enforcement officials claim
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 · 5:00 pm · 30 Comments
Hacking the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone has produced data the FBI didn’t have before and has helped…
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Apple, FBI return to Congress to spar over encryption
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 · 2:15 pm · 6 Comments
Apple has been asked by Chinese authorities within the last two years to hand over its source code but refused to do so…
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John McAfee: Professional hackers did not unlock Islamic terrorist’s iPhone, Cellebrite helped the FBI
Monday, April 18, 2016 · 9:57 am · 4 Comments
Now that the FBI has cracked into the San Bernardino iPhone, a new debate has been raised over who helped them…
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Apple’s fight against U.S. government overreach rages on in Brooklyn
Friday, April 15, 2016 · 5:39 pm · 9 Comments
The tug-of-war between Apple Inc. and the FBI over encryption shows no signs of easing as the company reiterated its reasons…
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FBI requests warrant to unlock iPhone 5c connected to California murder investigation
Thursday, April 14, 2016 · 5:40 pm · 12 Comments
The FBI plans to work with its own San Diego Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory to obtain data from a seized iPhone 5c…
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Apple won’t sue FBI to reveal hack used to unlock Islamic terrorist’s iPhone
Friday, April 8, 2016 · 4:50 pm · 9 Comments
Apple will not pursue legal action against the US government to discover how federal agents broke into an iPhone…
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Roots of Apple-FBI standoff reach back to 2008 child sex abuse case
Thursday, April 7, 2016 · 3:28 pm · 6 Comments
The roots of the current standoff between Apple Inc. and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reach back to 2008…
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FBI director confirms hack only works on older iPhones that lack Apple’s Secure Enclave
Thursday, April 7, 2016 · 10:20 am · 9 Comments
FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that the government had purchased…
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FBI briefs U.S. Senators on how San Bernardino iPhone was hacked
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 · 7:29 pm · 29 Comments
The FBI isn’t keeping its new iPhone attack secret from everyone…
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Apple shoots for the impossible: An unbreakable iPhone
Friday, April 1, 2016 · 8:40 pm · 29 Comments
Apple is pushing hard to make its phones more secure, but the quest for perfect security will never be met…
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Inside the little-known Japanese firm helping the FBI crack Apple iPhones
Friday, April 1, 2016 · 9:58 am · 6 Comments
The little-known Japanese company at the center of a legal tussle between Apple Inc. and the U.S. government…
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FBI tests technique’s ability to unlock more iPhone models, iOS versions
Friday, April 1, 2016 · 8:28 am · 13 Comments
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is testing the method used to crack a terrorist’s iPhone to see how many other versions of the device it could open…
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ACLU: U.S. government forced Google and Apple to unlock 63 devices
Thursday, March 31, 2016 · 11:27 am · 15 Comments
The government insisted that its effort to force Apple to help break into an iPhone…
