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U.S. Senators threaten Apple and Facebook with mandated encryption backdoors

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 4:00 pmTuesday, December 10, 20199 Comments

U.S. senators grilled Apple Inc and Facebook Inc executives over their encryption practices on Tuesday and threatened to regulate the technology unless…

FBI Director Christopher Wray continues pushing for encryption back doors

Tuesday, March 5, 2019 6:00 pmTuesday, March 5, 201910 Comments

The encryption war is quiet now, but the murky back-and-forth between…

EFF calls on Apple to let users truly encrypt iCloud backups as part of ‘fix it already’ initiative

Thursday, February 28, 2019 4:30 pmThursday, February 28, 20192 Comments

When data is backed up to iCloud, it’s encrypted so that Apple, and not just the user, can access it…

Cellebrite, the Feds’ favorite iPhone hacking tool, is selling on ebay for $100 – and it’s leaking data

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 5:01 pmWednesday, February 27, 20193 Comments

hen eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K…

FBI: End-to-end encryption like Apple’s ‘infects’ law enforcement

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 11:00 amWednesday, February 27, 20195 Comments

Nearly three years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation abandoned an effort to force Apple Inc…


Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others denounce Australia’s ‘deeply flawed’ anti-encryption law

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 1:32 pmWednesday, February 27, 20195 Comments

Apple, Google and Microsoft have denounced the Australian government’s decision to pass an anti-encryption law that…

Backdoors: Australia passes laws allowing spies and police to snoop on encrypted communications

Friday, December 7, 2018 10:01 amFriday, December 7, 201818 Comments

Australia Thursday passed controversial laws allowing spies and police to snoop on the encrypted communications…

Apple to Australia: This is no time to weaken encryption; access only for ‘good guys’ is a false premise

Saturday, October 13, 2018 12:12 pm57 Comments

Apple has filed its formal opposition to a new bill currently being proposed by the Australian government…

Apple urges Australian government not to destroy encryption with ‘backdoors’

Friday, October 12, 2018 5:37 pmFriday, October 12, 20188 Comments

Apple has submitted its formal response to a draft bill undergoing debate by the Australian government…

Apple, other tech giants denounce proposed Australian law seeking encryption ‘backdoor’

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 8:35 amWednesday, October 3, 20188 Comments

Four global tech giants – Facebook, Apple, Alphabet and Amazon – will oppose an Australian law…

Australia plans law for tech firms to hand over encrypted private data or face millions in fines, jail time for execs

Tuesday, August 14, 2018 12:02 pmTuesday, August 14, 201816 Comments

Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms…

More proof that iPhone backdoors are a stupid idea: Massive cache of law enforcement personnel data leaks

Monday, July 2, 2018 9:30 amMonday, July 2, 201821 Comments

A data breach at a federally funded active shooter training center has exposed the personal data of thousands of US law enforcement officials…

The Boston Globe Editorial Board: Break up Google

Saturday, June 16, 2018 12:02 pm24 Comments

Never in the history of the world has a single company had so much control over what people know and think…

Apple highlights user privacy as Facebook exec steps down

Thursday, June 14, 2018 5:35 pmFriday, June 15, 20188 Comments

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook takes every opportunity to highlight his company’s commitment to privacy…

Bipartisan ‘Secure Data Act’ would make it illegal for U.S. government to demand backdoors

Friday, May 11, 2018 2:55 pmFriday, May 11, 20189 Comments

A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right…

Fired FBI director James Comey reveals how Apple’s encryption efforts drove him crazy

Monday, April 16, 2018 12:03 pmMonday, April 16, 201820 Comments

Fired FBI director James Comey writes about President Trump while also addressing other aspects of his career…

The U.S. government can now (probably) unlock every iPhone model in existence

Monday, February 26, 2018 2:01 pmMonday, February 26, 201857 Comments

In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement…

Bill Gates thinks Apple should unlock iPhones at the government’s request

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:56 amTuesday, February 13, 201862 Comments

In an interview with Axios, Bill Gates warned Apple and other tech giants that they risk the kind of nightmarish government…

FBI forensic expert blasts Apple ‘jerks’ for encrypting iPhones

Thursday, January 11, 2018 12:01 pm31 Comments

Ever since Apple made encryption default on the iPhone, the FBI has been waging a war against encryption…

FBI Director Wray calls inability to access electronic devices an ‘urgent public safety issue’

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 5:00 pmTuesday, January 9, 201848 Comments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is increasingly unable to access data from some electronic devices…

iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments

Thursday, July 20, 2017 2:44 pmThursday, July 20, 201711 Comments

Apple has consistently argued against laws that would require tech companies to build so-called ‘back doors’ into their software…

Apple flies in top executives to lobby Australia’s Turnbull government on encryption laws

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 5:17 pm10 Comments

Apple’s top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month…

Apple meeting with Australian government to discuss proposed encryption ‘back doors’

Tuesday, July 18, 2017 2:33 pmTuesday, July 18, 201732 Comments

Attorney-General George Brandis will meet with global tech-giant Apple this week…

President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey who called for iPhone backdoor

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 6:46 pmTuesday, May 9, 2017110 Comments

President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey…

After U.S. gov’t refuses to declassify sum paid for FBI’s San Bernardino iPhone hack, Senator Dianne Feinstein inadvertently reveals it

Monday, May 8, 2017 12:00 pmMonday, May 8, 201712 Comments

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees the FBI, said publicly this week that the government paid $900,000 to break into the locked iPhone…

FBI’s James Comey: ‘There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America’

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 4:01 pmWednesday, March 8, 2017103 Comments

All of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, and in our devices. But…

FBI Director James Comey cancels SXSW 2017 appearance

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 5:35 pmTuesday, March 7, 201735 Comments

FBI Director James Comey will be unable to attend SXSW due to “scheduling conflicts” that…

News organizations ask judge to force FBI to reveal how much it paid to unlock San Bernadino Islamic terrorist’s iPhone

Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2:44 pmTuesday, February 21, 20179 Comments

Last year, the battle between Apple and the FBI dominated headlines…

Proving Apple’s assertion that there are no good backdoors, hacker dumps iOS cracking tools allegedly stolen from Cellebrite

Thursday, February 2, 2017 3:55 pmThursday, February 2, 201710 Comments

The hacker responsible has publicly released a cache of files allegedly stolen from Cellebrite…

A hacker just proved that Apple was right to worry about creating a backdoor to the iPhone

Friday, January 13, 2017 10:25 am21 Comments

Last year, when the F.B.I procured a court order forcing Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging…

“1984” in 2017: Apple’s Orwellian move in China

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 11:39 amTuesday, January 10, 201730 Comments

Most people old enough to have watched the 1984 Super Bowl will not remember the two American football teams…

What Apple got right but Amazon is getting wrong

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 1:55 pmWednesday, January 4, 201716 Comments

Law and technology frequently operate at cross purposes….

New Apple Report suggests governments everywhere are demanding customer data

Friday, December 9, 2016 4:46 pmFriday, December 9, 201628 Comments

Apple has published the latest edition of its biannual report on Government Information Requests…

President Trump’s attorney general pick Jeff Sessions could restart the encryption fight

Friday, November 18, 2016 3:15 pmFriday, November 18, 201673 Comments

After weeks of speculation, President-elect Donald Trump today named Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as his choice for attorney general…

FBI wants to get into locked Apple iPhone of Minnesota Islamic terrorist Dahir Adan

Friday, October 7, 2016 11:00 am21 Comments

When the FBI asked a court to force Apple to help crack the encrypted iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter…

British PM Theresa May launches thinly veiled attacks on Apple and Facebook

Wednesday, October 5, 2016 10:55 amWednesday, October 5, 201638 Comments

Theresa May launched a thinly veiled attack on Apple and Facebook…

Hardware hack bypasses iPhone passcode security

Monday, September 19, 2016 3:32 pmMonday, September 19, 201612 Comments

The work contradicts a claim made by the FBI earlier this year that this approach would not work….

Apple backs Microsoft in battle against U.S. government over ‘Sneak-and-Peek’ searches

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 11:01 amTuesday, September 6, 20167 Comments

Apple Inc., Google and Amazon.com Inc. were among the tech leaders that rallied behind Microsoft Corp…

After calling for less security in Apple iPhone case, feckless FBI calls for more security as two state voter databases hacked

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 3:00 pmTuesday, August 30, 201613 Comments

The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases…

Inept Microsoft demonstrates just how right Apple was to stand up to U.S. government overreach

Friday, August 12, 2016 12:03 pmFriday, August 12, 20168 Comments

I wrote an opinion piece predating the San Bernardino shootings on why Apple was right to stand firm…

Bungling Microsoft singlehandedly proves that ‘backdoors’ are a stupid idea

Wednesday, August 10, 2016 2:30 pmWednesday, August 10, 201623 Comments

Microsoft leaked the golden keys that unlock Windows-powered tablets, phones and other devices sealed…

FBI Director Comey calls for national talk over encryption vs. safety

Monday, August 8, 2016 3:25 pmMonday, August 8, 201640 Comments

The FBI’s director said Friday the agency is collecting data to present next year in hopes…

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