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How to delete your online existence, while saving your data
Sick of Snapchat? Tired of Twitter? Fed up with Facebook?
News organizations ask judge to force FBI to reveal how much it paid to unlock San Bernadino Islamic terrorist’s iPhone
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
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
Last year, when the F.B.I procured a court order forcing Apple to unlock an iPhone belonging…
What Apple got right but Amazon is getting wrong
Law and technology frequently operate at cross purposes….
U.S. to disclose estimate of number of American citizens under surveillance
The U.S. intelligence community will soon disclose an estimate of the number of Americans whose electronic communications have been…
Yahoo discloses ‘largest hack of all time,’ says hackers stole data from over one billion users
Yahoo said it is forcing all affected users to change their passwords and is invalidating unencrypted security questions…
President Trump’s attorney general pick Jeff Sessions could restart the encryption fight
After weeks of speculation, President-elect Donald Trump today named Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as his choice for attorney general…
Facebook wants to start selling TV ads via Apple TV and Roku boxes
Next week, Facebook will start delivering video ads on apps that run on set-top boxes like Apple TV and Roku…
Google to try to overcome Pixel phones’ myriad weaknesses with massive advertising blitz
Google’s new ‘Pixel’ smartphone is off to a fast marketing start with $3.2 million in television ads…
FBI wants to get into locked Apple iPhone of Minnesota Islamic terrorist Dahir Adan
When the FBI asked a court to force Apple to help crack the encrypted iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter…
Google’s slow, shaky, underpowered, overpriced Pixel XL cannot compete with Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus
Google’s latest effort to show off its vision for ‘Pure Android’ hardware costs the same as Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus…
Think Apple’s iPhone is expensive? Take a look at the price tags on Google’s slow Pixel and Pixel XL phones
For years the Android fanboy argument has been that the iPhone is too expensive and that Android offers…
British PM Theresa May launches thinly veiled attacks on Apple and Facebook
Theresa May launched a thinly veiled attack on Apple and Facebook…
Yahoo secretly scanned all customer emails for FBI, NSA, sources say
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails…
Edward Snowden: No matter what, do not use Google’s new Allo messenger app
Google has received much criticism for changes it made to Allo upon its release…
Hardware hack bypasses iPhone passcode security
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
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
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
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
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
The FBI’s director said Friday the agency is collecting data to present next year in hopes…
Snowden designs a device to warn if your iPhone’s radios are snitching
When Edward Snowden met with reporters in a Hong Kong hotel room to spill the NSA’s secrets…
Facebook begins tracking non-users around the internet
Facebook will now display ads to web users who are not members of its social network…
Apple rehires prominent security pro to deliver even more powerful security features
Apple Inc , which has resisted pressure from U.S. law enforcement to unlock encrypted iPhones…
Wikileaks warned Apple that iTunes could be used as a backdoor for spies – back in 2011
Featured is Lady Gaga interviewing Assange with a small camera…
Feckless FBI unable to unlock iPhone, even with a ‘fingerprint unlock warrant’
A judge recently took the controversial step of letting the FBI force a woman to unlock an iPhone with her fingerprints. But it didn’t work…
The Touch ID lock on your iPhone isn’t cop-proof
Law enforcement may be able to compel suspects to press their fingers to the devices and unlock them…
U.S. government wants your fingerprints to unlock your phone
As the world watched the FBI spar with Apple this winter in an attempt to hack into a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone…
U.S. Congressman Ted Lieu says strong encryption without backdoors is a ‘national security priority’
Ted Lieu is one of the few bona fide computer geeks in Congress…
FBI paid under $1 million for iPhone hack; doesn’t know how it works
The FBI paid under $1 million for the technique used to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters…
FBI plans to keep Apple iPhone 5c-hacking method secret
The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t plan to tell Apple Inc. how it cracked a terrorist’s phone…
U.S. drops bid to force Apple to help unlock iPhone in Brooklyn after source provided passcode
The U.S. government said it no longer needs Apple Inc.’s help to get into an iPhone used by a drug dealer…
FBI’s Comey says agency paid more than $1 million to access San Bernadino iPhone
FBI Director James Comey hinted at an event in London on Thursday that the FBI paid more than $1 million…
Apple refused China access to source code
Apple has refused demands by China to hand over source code, the company’s attorney said…
Data from San Bernardino phone has helped in probe, U.S. law enforcement officials claim
Hacking the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone has produced data the FBI didn’t have before and has helped…
Apple, FBI return to Congress to spar over encryption
Apple has been asked by Chinese authorities within the last two years to hand over its source code but refused to do so…
John McAfee: Professional hackers did not unlock Islamic terrorist’s iPhone, Cellebrite helped the FBI
Now that the FBI has cracked into the San Bernardino iPhone, a new debate has been raised over who helped them…
Apple’s fight against U.S. government overreach rages on in Brooklyn
The tug-of-war between Apple Inc. and the FBI over encryption shows no signs of easing as the company reiterated its reasons…
FBI requests warrant to unlock iPhone 5c connected to California murder investigation
The FBI plans to work with its own San Diego Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory to obtain data from a seized iPhone 5c…
Nothing significant found on San Bernardino’s terrorist’s iPhone
Investigators spent months trying to gain access to data on the locked iPhone used by San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook…
