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

Monday, April 16, 2018 12:03 pmMonday, April 16, 201824 Comments

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

FBI agent texts criticize Apple: ‘Now if Tim Cook would fall off the face of the earth’

Friday, February 9, 2018 9:03 amFriday, February 9, 2018101 Comments

The messages are between Peter Strzok, an FBI counterintelligence agent, and Lisa Page, a lawyer for the FBI, who were involved in an extramarital affair at the time…

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…

Dow hits all-time high as fired FBI director Comey testifies before U.S. Senate committee

Thursday, June 8, 2017 2:25 pmThursday, June 8, 2017152 Comments

While many investors on Thursday were laser-focused on fired FBI Director James Comey…

Politics may upstage Apple’s Big WWDC announcements

Friday, June 2, 2017 5:08 pm39 Comments

Apple will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, where management typically unveils…

Jack Welch: Impeachment of President Trump would ‘blow the market away’

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 12:25 pmWednesday, May 17, 201799 Comments

Welch said he would give Trump an ‘A’ on the policy front and in his Cabinet and Supreme Court picks…

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…

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….

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….

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…

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…

Obama administration wants FBI access to people’s Internet browser history without a warrant

Tuesday, June 7, 2016 9:25 amTuesday, June 7, 201655 Comments

The Obama administration is seeking to amend surveillance law to give the FBI explicit authority to access a person’s Internet browser history…

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

Friday, April 29, 2016 10:55 amFriday, April 29, 20168 Comments

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

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 8:46 pm11 Comments

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

Friday, April 22, 2016 10:51 pm37 Comments

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

Thursday, April 21, 2016 4:50 pmThursday, April 21, 201619 Comments

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

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:41 pm16 Comments

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

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:00 pm30 Comments

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

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 2:15 pm6 Comments

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

Monday, April 18, 2016 9:57 amMonday, April 18, 20164 Comments

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

Friday, April 15, 2016 5:39 pm9 Comments

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

Thursday, April 14, 2016 5:40 pm12 Comments

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

Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:34 am24 Comments

Investigators spent months trying to gain access to data on the locked iPhone used by San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook…

FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:01 pm19 Comments

he FBI cracked a San Bernardino terrorist’s phone with the help of professional hackers who discovered and brought to the bureau…

Security firm CEO: Apple vs. government overreach issue will drag on for years

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 8:57 amWednesday, April 13, 201614 Comments

Apple versus the FBI was just the beginning: The debate between privacy and cybersecurity will drag on for years…

Apple could be moving their iCloud servers in-house

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 11:29 amTuesday, April 12, 20168 Comments

China-based server brand vendor Inspur has been rumored to have entered Apple’s datacenter supply chain…

Apple won’t sue FBI to reveal hack used to unlock Islamic terrorist’s iPhone

Friday, April 8, 2016 4:50 pmFriday, April 8, 20169 Comments

Apple will not pursue legal action against the US government to discover how federal agents broke into an iPhone…

U.S. government to continue effort to force Apple to unlock iPhone in Brooklyn

Friday, April 8, 2016 1:28 pmFriday, April 8, 201612 Comments

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday said it will move ahead with an appeal of a court ruling…

Roots of Apple-FBI standoff reach back to 2008 child sex abuse case

Thursday, April 7, 2016 3:28 pmThursday, April 7, 20166 Comments

The roots of the current standoff between Apple Inc. and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reach back to 2008…

FBI director confirms hack only works on older iPhones that lack Apple’s Secure Enclave

Thursday, April 7, 2016 10:20 amThursday, April 7, 20169 Comments

FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that the government had purchased…

FBI briefs U.S. Senators on how San Bernardino iPhone was hacked

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 7:29 pm29 Comments

The FBI isn’t keeping its new iPhone attack secret from everyone…

U.S. government’s multi-million dollar mobile forensics shopping spree revealed

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 10:25 amWednesday, April 6, 20169 Comments

The FBI, the DOJ, and numerous other U.S. government agencies have been buying mobile forensics and smart phone hacking tools…

FBI keeping mum on what it found on government-issued iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 9:57 amWednesday, April 6, 201619 Comments

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is still analyzing data on the iPhone used by a San Bernardino, Calif…

Apple confident they’ll find and patch iPhone hack purchased by FBI

Monday, April 4, 2016 12:58 pmMonday, April 4, 201613 Comments

The FBI’s method for breaking into a locked iPhone 5c is unlikely to stay secret for long…

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