Tag: National Security Agency
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FBI Director Christopher Wray continues pushing for encryption back doors
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 · 6:00 pm · 10 Comments
The encryption war is quiet now, but the murky back-and-forth between…
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Cellebrite, the Feds’ favorite iPhone hacking tool, is selling on ebay for $100 – and it’s leaking data
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 · 5:01 pm · 3 Comments
hen eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K…
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FBI: End-to-end encryption like Apple’s ‘infects’ law enforcement
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 · 11:00 am · 5 Comments
Nearly three years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation abandoned an effort to force Apple Inc…
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Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others denounce Australia’s ‘deeply flawed’ anti-encryption law
Tuesday, December 11, 2018 · 1:32 pm · 5 Comments
Apple, Google and Microsoft have denounced the Australian government’s decision to pass an anti-encryption law that…
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Backdoors: Australia passes laws allowing spies and police to snoop on encrypted communications
Friday, December 7, 2018 · 10:01 am · 18 Comments
Australia Thursday passed controversial laws allowing spies and police to snoop on the encrypted communications…
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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 pm · 57 Comments
Apple has filed its formal opposition to a new bill currently being proposed by the Australian government…
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Apple urges Australian government not to destroy encryption with ‘backdoors’
Friday, October 12, 2018 · 5:37 pm · 8 Comments
Apple has submitted its formal response to a draft bill undergoing debate by the Australian government…
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Apple, other tech giants denounce proposed Australian law seeking encryption ‘backdoor’
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 · 8:35 am · 8 Comments
Four global tech giants – Facebook, Apple, Alphabet and Amazon – will oppose an Australian law…
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More proof that iPhone backdoors are a stupid idea: Massive cache of law enforcement personnel data leaks
Monday, July 2, 2018 · 9:30 am · 21 Comments
A data breach at a federally funded active shooter training center has exposed the personal data of thousands of US law enforcement officials…
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Apple highlights user privacy as Facebook exec steps down
Thursday, June 14, 2018 · 5:35 pm · 8 Comments
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook takes every opportunity to highlight his company’s commitment to privacy…
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Bipartisan ‘Secure Data Act’ would make it illegal for U.S. government to demand backdoors
Friday, May 11, 2018 · 2:55 pm · 9 Comments
A new bill introduced in Congress gets encryption right…
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Bill Gates thinks Apple should unlock iPhones at the government’s request
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 · 11:56 am · 62 Comments
In an interview with Axios, Bill Gates warned Apple and other tech giants that they risk the kind of nightmarish government…
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President Trump sarcastically accuses FBI of ‘blaming Samsung’ for missing Strzok-Page texts
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 · 9:13 am · 49 Comments
President Donald Trump tweeted his contempt for the FBI on Tuesday as he demanded to kno…
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FBI forensic expert blasts Apple ‘jerks’ for encrypting iPhones
Thursday, January 11, 2018 · 12:01 pm · 31 Comments
Ever since Apple made encryption default on the iPhone, the FBI has been waging a war against encryption…
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FBI Director Wray calls inability to access electronic devices an ‘urgent public safety issue’
Tuesday, January 9, 2018 · 5:00 pm · 48 Comments
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is increasingly unable to access data from some electronic devices…
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U.S. to disclose estimate of number of American citizens under surveillance
Monday, December 19, 2016 · 9:28 am · 9 Comments
The U.S. intelligence community will soon disclose an estimate of the number of Americans whose electronic communications have been…
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New Apple Report suggests governments everywhere are demanding customer data
Friday, December 9, 2016 · 4:46 pm · 28 Comments
Apple has published the latest edition of its biannual report on Government Information Requests…
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President Trump’s attorney general pick Jeff Sessions could restart the encryption fight
Friday, November 18, 2016 · 3:15 pm · 73 Comments
After weeks of speculation, President-elect Donald Trump today named Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as his choice for attorney general…
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Hardware hack bypasses iPhone passcode security
Monday, September 19, 2016 · 3:32 pm · 12 Comments
The work contradicts a claim made by the FBI earlier this year that this approach would not work….
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Apple backs Microsoft in battle against U.S. government over ‘Sneak-and-Peek’ searches
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 · 11:01 am · 7 Comments
Apple Inc., Google and Amazon.com Inc. were among the tech leaders that rallied behind Microsoft Corp…
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Inept Microsoft demonstrates just how right Apple was to stand up to U.S. government overreach
Friday, August 12, 2016 · 12:03 pm · 8 Comments
I wrote an opinion piece predating the San Bernardino shootings on why Apple was right to stand firm…
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Bungling Microsoft singlehandedly proves that ‘backdoors’ are a stupid idea
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 · 2:30 pm · 23 Comments
Microsoft leaked the golden keys that unlock Windows-powered tablets, phones and other devices sealed…
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Apple rehires prominent security pro to deliver even more powerful security features
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 · 4:01 pm · 2 Comments
Apple Inc , which has resisted pressure from U.S. law enforcement to unlock encrypted iPhones…
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Feckless FBI unable to unlock iPhone, even with a ‘fingerprint unlock warrant’
Thursday, May 12, 2016 · 11:42 am · 34 Comments
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…
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The Touch ID lock on your iPhone isn’t cop-proof
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 · 9:55 am · 33 Comments
Law enforcement may be able to compel suspects to press their fingers to the devices and unlock them…
