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  1. 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 pm · 16 Comments

    Australia on Tuesday proposed a new law requiring technology firms…

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

    Monday, April 16, 2018 · 12:03 pm · 20 Comments

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

  3. Cellebrite: We keep iPhone exploits secret for the public’s safety

    Thursday, March 1, 2018 · 4:44 pm · 18 Comments

    Earlier this week, Forbes learned that Israel-based U.S. government contractor Cellebrite was touting…

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

    Monday, February 26, 2018 · 2:01 pm · 57 Comments

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

  5. iCloud changes put Apple on collision course with overreaching governments

    Thursday, July 20, 2017 · 2:44 pm · 11 Comments

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

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

    Wednesday, July 19, 2017 · 5:17 pm · 10 Comments

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

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

    Tuesday, July 18, 2017 · 2:33 pm · 32 Comments

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

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

    Tuesday, May 9, 2017 · 6:46 pm · 110 Comments

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

  9. 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 pm · 12 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…

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

    Wednesday, March 8, 2017 · 4:01 pm · 103 Comments

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

  11. FBI Director James Comey cancels SXSW 2017 appearance

    Tuesday, March 7, 2017 · 5:35 pm · 35 Comments

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

  12. 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 pm · 9 Comments

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

  13. 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 pm · 10 Comments

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

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

    Friday, January 13, 2017 · 10:25 am · 21 Comments

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

  15. What Apple got right but Amazon is getting wrong

    Wednesday, January 4, 2017 · 1:55 pm · 16 Comments

    Law and technology frequently operate at cross purposes….

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

    Friday, October 7, 2016 · 11:00 am · 21 Comments

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

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

    Wednesday, October 5, 2016 · 10:55 am · 38 Comments

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

  18. 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 pm · 13 Comments

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

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

    Monday, August 8, 2016 · 3:25 pm · 40 Comments

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

  20. FBI paid under $1 million for iPhone hack; doesn’t know how it works

    Friday, April 29, 2016 · 10:55 am · 8 Comments

    The FBI paid under $1 million for the technique used to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters…

  21. 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…

  22. FBI’s Comey says agency paid more than $1 million to access San Bernadino iPhone

    Thursday, April 21, 2016 · 4:50 pm · 19 Comments

    FBI Director James Comey hinted at an event in London on Thursday that the FBI paid more than $1 million…

  23. 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…

  24. 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…

  25. 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…