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Apple’s Cook is second most favorable tech CEO in poll of registered voters

Friday, February 26, 2016 4:18 pmFriday, February 26, 201619 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook has the second-highest approval rating of tech leaders, according to a new Morning Consult poll…

Apple privacy battle with Washington looms as watershed moment

Friday, February 26, 2016 2:01 pmFriday, February 26, 20165 Comments

Apple’s fight has exposed an unresolved tension between the law and digital technology that has been building towards this flashpoint for decades…

Apple’s lawyer: If we lose, it will lead to a ‘police state’

Friday, February 26, 2016 1:00 pm57 Comments

Apple’s attorney painted a scary picture if Apple loses its fight with the FBI…

Apple: The law already exists that protects us from U.S. government demands to hack iPhone

Friday, February 26, 2016 10:45 amFriday, February 26, 201622 Comments

The U.S. Congress has already decided not to require electronic communication service providers, like Apple, to do what the government seeks…

While Apple defies U.S. government, just how accommodating are they to Chinese authorities?

Friday, February 26, 2016 10:16 amFriday, February 26, 201612 Comments

Apple Inc. has come out swinging in its pitched battle with the government on its home turf…

In Republican debate, candidates back U.S. government over Apple

Friday, February 26, 2016 9:41 amFriday, February 26, 201662 Comments

During Thursday’s GOP debate, CNN’s Dana Bash asked about the court order the FBI recently obtained demanding that Apple help the government hack into an iPhone…

Ten engineers and a month of work – that’s what it would take for Apple to comply with FBI demand to hack iPhone

Friday, February 26, 2016 9:06 amFriday, February 26, 201631 Comments

Ten engineers and a month of work — that’s what it could take for Apple Inc. to write the program…

Apple and the FBI will face off at a U.S. Congressional hearing on March 1st

Friday, February 26, 2016 8:25 amFriday, February 26, 20164 Comments

Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell will argue Apple’s encryption case in front of the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee…

Google, Facebook, Twitter, EFF, ACLU, others to file unsolicited amicus brief on behalf of Apple against FBI demand

Thursday, February 25, 2016 6:15 pm26 Comments

Tech giants are gathering in Apple’s corner over the Silicon Valley giant’s battle with the federal government…

Microsoft ‘wholeheartedly’ backs Apple’s refusal to assist U.S government in unlocking iPhone

Thursday, February 25, 2016 5:14 pm17 Comments

Make no mistake about who Microsoft sides with in the case of Apple versus FBI…

Apple asks judge to vacate order on locked iPhone

Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:53 pm8 Comments

The filing represents Apple’s first official response since the judge’s order last week and builds upon arguments voiced by the company’s chief executive and supporters…

Apple may use a First Amendment defense against FBI iPhone hack demand – and it just might work

Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:21 pm18 Comments

pple’s lawyers indicated yesterday that they plan to use a First Amendment defense in the San Bernardino iPhone case…

FBI chief acknowledges Apple case may set privacy precedent

Thursday, February 25, 2016 1:26 pmThursday, February 25, 201627 Comments

FBI Director James Comey said the government isn’t looking to send a message with a court order to compel Apple Inc…

Gruber: The next step in iPhone impregnability

Thursday, February 25, 2016 12:01 pmThursday, February 25, 20167 Comments

Apple engineers have already begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible…

U.S. government sought data from 15 Apple devices in last four months

Thursday, February 25, 2016 10:32 amThursday, February 25, 20168 Comments

Court records released on Tuesday show the U.S. Justice Department has in the last four months sought court orders to force Apple…

In FBI vs. Apple, Judge Sheri Pym asks for technological details

Thursday, February 25, 2016 10:01 amThursday, February 25, 201631 Comments

The judge overseeing a U.S. government attempt to force Apple Inc to unlock an encrypted iPhone…

Apple said to be prepping iOS version that even it can’t hack

Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:25 amThursday, February 25, 201636 Comments

Apple engineers have begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone…

Apple CEO Tim Cook says iPhone-cracking software the ‘equivalent of cancer’

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:57 pmWednesday, February 24, 201630 Comments

Cook said that the issue was not just about privacy, but also about the public’s safety…

Tim Cook to appear on ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 5:00 pmWednesday, February 24, 201622 Comments

ABC News announced via Twitter that Apple CEO Tim Cook will be speaking with David Muir…

Apple vs. FBI iPhone battle shows users remain the weakest link in security

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 4:30 pmWednesday, February 24, 20169 Comments

While Apple and the FBI fight a high-stakes legal battle over a locked iPhone, the dispute also highlights…

Obama admin calls tech and entertainment firms to terrorism meeting

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 3:28 pmWednesday, February 24, 201626 Comments

Obama administration officials will meet with executives of major technology and entertainment firms in Washington…

Apple vs. FBI: Who’s really winning in the court of public opinion?

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 2:58 pmWednesday, February 24, 20167 Comments

One person whose wife was shot in the attack says, “I use Apple phones, so I want to keep my information confidential, keep my information private so it should not be accessed by anyone — not even law enforcement officers…”

How Apple could be punished for defying the U.S. government demand to hack iPhone

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 2:00 pmWednesday, February 24, 201636 Comments

The fines and punishments that Apple could face by continuing to defy the FBI’s demand that it help unlock the iPhone are considerable…

Smattering of protesters gather to support Apple in iPhone fight against U.S. government

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 1:33 pmWednesday, February 24, 20164 Comments

Concerned iPhone users and digital security supporters banded together on Tuesday…

Apple is losing the PR war with the U.S. government

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 1:10 pmWednesday, February 24, 201619 Comments

Apple needs an upgrade – to its public relations strategy…

U.S. Representative Darrell Issa on Apple vs. FBI: Very scary when your government wants to know more about you

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:05 pmWednesday, February 24, 201615 Comments

It’s time for Congress to define what, in this era, would be allowed and not allowed under the Fourth Amendment…

Apple: The U.S. Congress, not the courts, must decide iPhone access fight

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 11:01 amWednesday, February 24, 201614 Comments

Apple Inc. will tell a federal judge this week in legal papers that its fight with the FBI over accessing a locked and encrypted iPhone…

Apple’s fight with U.S. could speed development of devices impervious to government intrusion

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:55 amWednesday, February 24, 201614 Comments

The legal showdown between Apple Inc and U.S. law enforcement over encryption, no matter the outcome, will likely accelerate…

Apple to argue that FBI court order violates its free-speech rights

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:25 amWednesday, February 24, 201632 Comments

In Apple’s fight to knock down a court order requiring it to help FBI agents unlock a killer’s iPhone…

Apple, the U.S. government, and security

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:01 amWednesday, February 24, 201612 Comments

To lower the bar when it comes to defense is to give up one of the United States’ biggest strategic advantages…

‘Black Lives Matter’ protesters interrupt demonstration in support of Apple vs. U.S. feds

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 9:38 pm39 Comments

What was billed as a demonstration on the Mag Mile in support of Apple’s fight with the FBI turned into the latest protest…

Bill Gates waffles, doesn’t support the U.S. government or Apple in iPhone privacy fight

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 3:25 pmTuesday, February 23, 201617 Comments

Bill Gates is not fully backing either the FBI or Apple…

Congressman Ted Lieu asks FBI to drop demand that Apple hack iPhones

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 3:13 pmTuesday, February 23, 201613 Comments

Congressman Ted Lieu of California has asked the FBI to drop its legal attack on Apple…

In the fight to hack iPhones, the U.S. government has more to lose than Apple

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 2:37 pm17 Comments

It is a battle for public opinion almost as much as it is for the law…

Here are the 12 other cases where the U.S. government has demanded Apple help it hack into iPhones

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 2:27 pmTuesday, February 23, 201612 Comments

All of theses cases involve the DOJ using the All Writs Act to demand extra assistance from Apple…

John McAfee blasts FBI for ‘illiterate’ order to create Apple iPhone backdoor

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 11:01 amTuesday, February 23, 201635 Comments

What frightens me even more about this is that a federal judge in America is so illiterate in cybersecurity that they would allow this order to go through…

Some family members of San Bernardino victims back U.S. government

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 10:04 amTuesday, February 23, 201613 Comments

Those who wrongheadedly agree with these disingenuous government hacks need to realize that they are working to deliver exactly what the terrorists wanted to achieve with their murderous rampage…

Apple supporters to rally worldwide today against U.S. government demand to unlock iPhone

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 9:39 amTuesday, February 23, 201610 Comments

iPhone users will rally at Apple stores worldwide Tuesday…

Bill Gates backs U.S. government’s iPhone hack request

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 8:55 amTuesday, February 23, 201636 Comments

Bill Gates has broken ranks with Silicon Valley in the stand-off between Apple and the US government…

U.S. government seeks to force Apple to extract data from a dozen more iPhones

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 8:30 amTuesday, February 23, 201617 Comments

The Justice Department is pursuing court orders to force Apple Inc. to help investigators extract data from iPhones…

Apple CEO Cook: They’d have to cart us out in a box before we’d create a backdoor

Monday, February 22, 2016 9:54 pmMonday, February 22, 201650 Comments

Mr. Cook came to believe that privacy is a basic human right that Apple needs to support…

Rush Limbaugh: How the U.S. government bungled the handling of the San Bernardino iPhone

Monday, February 22, 2016 5:25 pmMonday, February 22, 201658 Comments

I’ve had people over the weekend sending me questions, comments, about this argument between Apple and the FBI, and what it means for the terrorist’s phone.

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