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Apple condemns British spy agency group’s proposal to destroy message encryption

Thursday, May 30, 2019 9:11 am5 Comments

Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp have co-signed an open letter urging the UK government…

Super Micro ditching ‘made-in-China’ parts despite no evidence of Bloomberg Businessweek’s spy chip claims

Thursday, May 2, 2019 9:03 am1 Comment

Super Micro Computer, the California-based server maker at the heart of spy chip allegations last autumn…

Tests of Super Micro equipment find no malicious chips in current or older-model motherboards

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 10:00 amTuesday, December 11, 20184 Comments

Computer hardware maker Super Micro Computer Inc told customers on Tuesday…

Bloomberg Businessweek should retract or unequivocally prove their Supermicro spy chip yarn

Thursday, November 29, 2018 9:57 amThursday, November 29, 20185 Comments

Apple, Amazon, the government, national security advisors, and independent technology experts alike have all said Bloomberg Businessweek is wrong…

Investigating implausible Bloomberg Businessweek’s Supermicro spy chip yarn

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 10:42 am6 Comments

Bloomberg Businessweek needs to retract the story and investigate how this passed editorial muster and was published…

AWS CEO joins Tim Cook in urging Bloomberg Businessweek to retract its Chinese spy chip yarn

Monday, October 22, 2018 6:06 pmMonday, October 22, 201816 Comments

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy has joined Apple CEO Tim Cook…

Super Micro to review hardware for malicious chips

Monday, October 22, 2018 8:56 am24 Comments

Despite the lack of any proof that a malicious hardware chip exists, we are undertaking a complicated and time-consuming review…

Apple CEO Tim Cook: Bloomberg Businessweek should do the right thing and retract its Chinese spy chip story

Friday, October 19, 2018 2:30 pm10 Comments

We turned the company upside down. This did not happen. There’s no truth to this…

NSA security adviser says ‘nobody’s found anything’ on Chinese chips

Thursday, October 11, 2018 1:15 pm23 Comments

NSA senior adviser for cybersecurity Rob Joyce tells…

NSA Senior Cybersecurity Advisor questions Bloomberg Businessweek’s China iCloud spy chip claim

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 5:35 pmWednesday, October 10, 201815 Comments

Rob Joyce, Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity Strategy at the NSA, is the latest official to question…

Before China iCloud spy chip allegations, Bloomberg published these five incorrect stories about Apple

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 3:02 pmWednesday, October 10, 20189 Comments

Media personalities have been bending over backward to find a way to square the claims…

U.S. Senators Rubio and Blumenthal demand answers from Supermicro over spy chip allegations

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:01 pmWednesday, October 10, 201824 Comments

A pair of senators have written to Supermicro requesting more information about events…

Apple CEO Tim Cook is in Shanghai in possible PR move after Bloomberg Businessweek’s spy chip yarn

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 12:00 pmTuesday, October 9, 2018No Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently visiting Shanghai…

One of Bloomberg’s sources told them Chinese spy chip story ‘didn’t make sense’

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 9:30 am5 Comments

One of the named sources – a security researcher who seemingly backed the claims – has said that his comment was taken out of context…

Apple suppliers took an $18 billion stock hit after Bloomberg’s disputed China hacking report

Friday, October 5, 2018 11:15 amFriday, October 5, 20188 Comments

Apple is a $1 trillion company, and its hardware supply chain amounts to another trillion…

UK cyber security agency backs Apple, Amazon China hack denials

Friday, October 5, 2018 10:17 amNo Comments

Britain’s national cyber security agency said on Friday it had no reason to doubt the assessments made by Apple…

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…

FBI vs. Apple isn’t over; Fourth Amendment issues remain

Monday, March 28, 2016 10:57 amMonday, March 28, 20168 Comments

The FBI and Apple reached a cease-fire last week, but it can’t last…

Apple says it may not be needed to unlock New York drug dealer’s iPhone

Friday, March 25, 2016 4:55 pmFriday, March 25, 20163 Comments

Apple Inc. said it may not be needed to help unlock an iPhone connected to a drug case in New York…

U.S. Congress likely to side with Apple vs. FBI in iPhone unlocking fight

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:29 pm15 Comments

In the days after the attacks of Sept. 11, law enforcement and national security agencies brought Congress a lengthy list…

The FBI’s case against Apple got kneecapped in Brooklyn: The judges rebuke couldn’t have been stronger

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 11:27 amTuesday, March 1, 201619 Comments

Using the word ‘tyranny’ once and ‘absurd’ nine times, Judge Orenstein accused the DOJ of trying to…

U.S. Magistrate Judge: The U.S. government cannot force Apple to unlock an iPhone in New York drug case

Monday, February 29, 2016 11:06 pmTuesday, March 1, 201618 Comments

The U.S. government cannot force Apple Inc. to unlock an iPhone in a New York drug case, a federal judge ruled…

Apple wants judge to rule if it can be forced to unlock defendant’s iPhone

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 6:08 pmTuesday, February 16, 201617 Comments

Apple has requested a court in New York to rule finally whether it can be compelled to assist investigators…

Apple CEO Tim Cook defends privacy, encryption amidst terrorist concerns

Friday, December 18, 2015 3:58 pmFriday, December 18, 20159 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook staunchly defended personal privacy and the use of encryption on iPhones…

Piggybacked U.S. cybersecurity bill may rile Apple Inc.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 6:38 pm34 Comments

The cybersecurity proposal shields companies that voluntarily share threat data with the U.S. government…

Obama administration wants access to smartphones

Tuesday, December 15, 2015 8:58 amTuesday, December 15, 201535 Comments

A civil-liberties advocate called the Obama administration one of the worst for privacy protections…

Obama administration’s calls for backdoors into encrypted communications echo Clinton-era key escrow fiasco

Monday, December 14, 2015 4:51 pmWednesday, February 26, 202040 Comments

In the face of a Federal Bureau of Investigation proposal requesting backdoors into encrypted communications…

Apple CEO Cook: ‘You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys’

Saturday, November 21, 2015 9:24 pm71 Comments

There’s a burning debate – bordering on a battle – between the U.S. government and technology companies over encryption…

Edward Snowden and spread of encryption blamed after Paris terror attacks

Saturday, November 14, 2015 3:19 pm142 Comments

As Paris reels from terror attacks that claimed at least 128 lives, fierce blame for the attack is being directed toward…

Privacy advocates alarmed as UK unveils laws proposing power to spy on Web use

Thursday, November 5, 2015 1:35 pm23 Comments

Britain unveiled plans on Wednesday for sweeping new surveillance powers, including the right to find out which websites people visit…

Do not let the government snoops weaken encryption

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 2:29 pmWednesday, November 4, 201520 Comments

The bill unveiled by the UK on Wednesday does not ban companies from offering strong encryption…

Apple can’t – and won’t – decrypt your iPhone: Why it matters

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 11:17 am7 Comments

Governments use a variety of means — sometimes de facto or later found to be illegal or unconstitutional in the country in which it’s occurring…

Government pressure for Apple to bypass encryption reduced as iPhone owner enters guilty plea

Saturday, October 31, 2015 10:56 am26 Comments

Jun Feng, a defendant in a criminal case, has entered a guilty plea, removing pressure from a New York court…

Judge compares government request for Apple to access users’ iPhone data to execution order

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 3:58 pmTuesday, October 27, 201511 Comments

Ordering Apple to access data against its will would be akin to making a reluctant drug company carry out a lethal injection…

U.S. judge expresses doubts over forcing Apple to unlock iPhone

Monday, October 26, 2015 3:58 pmMonday, October 26, 201518 Comments

U.S. judge on Monday expressed strong doubts that he had the legal authority to order Apple Inc…

US DOJ claims Apple lacks legal standing to refuse iPhone unlock order

Friday, October 23, 2015 4:55 pmFriday, October 23, 201551 Comments

A federal filing has shed some light on the court matter involving Apple’s unwillingness to unlock…

Apple tells U.S. judge it can’t unlock iPhones running iOS 8 or higher

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 4:26 pmTuesday, October 20, 20159 Comments

Apple Inc. told a federal judge that it ‘would be impossible’ to access user data on a locked iPhone…

Apple CEO Cook defends encryption, opposes back door for government spies

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 8:56 amTuesday, October 20, 201514 Comments

Apple Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer and the director of the National Security Agency squared off on Monday…

With Apple court order, activist federal judge seeks to fuel debate about data encryption

Monday, October 12, 2015 12:16 pmMonday, October 12, 201514 Comments

A federal judge in New York is seeking to expand to the courts the hot debate over whether tech companies like Apple…

Judge declines to order Apple to disable security on device seized by U.S. government

Saturday, October 10, 2015 3:03 pm20 Comments

A federal magistrate in Brooklyn is temporarily refusing to order Apple to disable security on a device seized by the U.S. government…

Apple refused to give iMessages to the U.S. government

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 12:24 pmTuesday, September 8, 201535 Comments

The Justice Department obtained a court order this summer demanding that Apple turn over, in real time, text messages…

NY Times Op-Ed calls for Apple to decrypt iPhones for law enforcement

Tuesday, August 11, 2015 7:23 pmTuesday, August 11, 201558 Comments

Last September, Apple and Google, whose operating systems…

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