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FBI says it may have found method to unlock San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone

Monday, March 21, 2016 8:19 pmMonday, March 21, 201666 Comments

The Justice Department said on Monday that it might no longer need Apple’s assistance to help open an iPhone…

Countdown to doomsday: Apple, FBI face off in court Tuesday

Saturday, March 19, 2016 10:55 am30 Comments

If you’ve been reading the headlines about Apple’s fight with the FBI, you know it’s easy to assume…

Apple sees weakness in FBI’s last-minute hearing request

Friday, March 18, 2016 2:58 pmFriday, March 18, 201618 Comments

A last-minute request by the FBI to call witnesses to next week’s court hearing in the San Bernardino iPhone case…

The FBI has a big ulterior motive in its war against privacy and Apple’s encrypted iPhone

Friday, March 18, 2016 9:32 amFriday, March 18, 201638 Comments

When a public interest group wants to create new legal precedent, its first step is to find…

The law is clear: The FBI cannot make Apple rewrite iOS

Friday, March 18, 2016 9:00 amFriday, March 18, 201656 Comments

No gaps; no interpretive sunlight: this statute stops the government from doing what it wants to do to Apple…

Apple engineers, if ordered to unlock iPhone, might resist

Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:57 pmThursday, March 17, 201665 Comments

If the F.B.I. wins its court fight to force Apple’s help in unlocking an iPhone, the agency may…

Three emerging technologies Woz loves, and what he thinks of Tim Cook

Thursday, March 17, 2016 4:56 pmThursday, March 17, 201610 Comments

Steve Wozniak, the man who co-founded Apple Inc. with Steve Jobs, is still tinkering and falling in love with gadgets…

Apple’s Tim Cook on FBI fight: ‘No one’s going dark’

Thursday, March 17, 2016 3:56 pmThursday, March 17, 201619 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook makes his case for why his company doesn’t want to help the FBI unlock San Bernardino killer…

Harvard Law professor and former Obama special assistant dismisses FBI’s claims

Thursday, March 17, 2016 2:28 pmThursday, March 17, 201632 Comments

Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford and former special assistant to President Obama…

Inside Apple CEO Tim Cook’s fight against government overreach

Thursday, March 17, 2016 10:58 amThursday, March 17, 201616 Comments

We didn’t hear anything for a few days…

How the U.S. government’s War on Privacy provoked a backlash

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:25 pm28 Comments

The FBI’s underhand attempt to get a judge to order Apple to make iPhones less secure is largely backfiring…

Apple: ‘Government misunderstands the technology’ involved in demanding they decrypt an iPhone

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 11:29 amWednesday, March 16, 201618 Comments

Last week, the FBI had filed with the court, describing Apple’s court-borne resistance…

Apple: The FBI’s demand is unconstitutional

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:26 amWednesday, March 16, 201643 Comments

Apple shouldn’t have to comply with a search order for an iPhone used by one the San Bernardino, California…

Apple says U.S. ‘Founders would be appalled’ by DOJ order

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 8:28 amWednesday, March 16, 201638 Comments

Apple Inc. charged Tuesday that a court order forcing the tech giant to assist the federal government…

36-year-old man to plead guilty to iCloud ‘Fappening’ celebrity nude photo theft

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 8:09 pm12 Comments

A man has been charged with hacking the Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts of celebrities…

Donald Trump’s trade rhetoric splits GOP and makes traditional economists quake

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 4:15 pmTuesday, March 15, 201665 Comments

With his threats to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, rip up trade deals and force companies such as Apple…

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham finally talks to tech experts, switches side to Apple vs. FBI

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 3:29 pmTuesday, March 15, 201627 Comments

On February 18th, Senator Lindsey Graham had this to say about the FBI v. Apple court battle…

Automattic and WordPress.com stand with Apple to support digital security

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 2:55 pmTuesday, March 15, 20166 Comments

At Automattic, we’re very mindful of the trust our users place in us to keep their information private and secure…

Obama administration begins to realize it may have made a big time mistake going after Apple over iPhone encryption

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 1:40 pmTuesday, March 15, 201676 Comments

Three years ago, reeling from Edward J. Snowden’s disclosure of the government’s vast surveillance programs…

Tech companies join Apple to fight back against government overreach, prep to expand encryption of user data

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 11:28 am12 Comments

Silicon Valley’s leading companies – including Facebook, Google and Snapchat – are working on their own increased privacy technology…

How Apple realized it was at war with the FBI: The DOJ was poised to launch PR campaign designed to pull the public’s heartstrings

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:28 amTuesday, March 15, 201626 Comments

It took just a few hours for the Justice Dept. to gauge how its legal action against Apple would be perceived by the public…

Apple’s fight against U.S. government overreach could escalate with demand for ‘source code’

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 9:28 amTuesday, March 15, 201617 Comments

The latest filing in the legal war between the planet’s most powerful government and its most valuable company…

Richard Clarke: U.S. government more interested in setting legal precedent than solving the problem of one iPhone

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 8:56 am9 Comments

NPR’s David Greene talks to the former senior counterterrorism official in the U.S. government, Richard Clarke, about the fight between Apple and the FBI….

Apple counsel: U.S. DOJ ‘got a little bit carried away’ with encryption rhetoric

Monday, March 14, 2016 4:55 pmMonday, March 14, 201620 Comments

Apple will shortly respond to the government on why the Justice Department arguments are wrong and “would have terrible consequences” for national security and citizens…

After Apple, Obama administration’s War on Privacy targets Facebook’s WhatsApp

Monday, March 14, 2016 3:03 pmMonday, March 14, 201617 Comments

A court fight with WhatsApp, the world’s largest mobile messaging service, would open a new front in the Obama administration’s war on privacy…

FBI could demand Apple source code and keys if iPhone backdoor too ‘burdensome’

Monday, March 14, 2016 1:06 pmMonday, March 14, 201638 Comments

The FBI could demand that Apple turns over its source code and private key to the iPhone’s operating system…

Obama criticized for ‘tone deaf’ comments at SXSW regarding Apple’s fight against government overreach

Monday, March 14, 2016 12:04 pmMonday, March 14, 201635 Comments

Obama’s rant on encryption is a detriment to privacy…

The U.S. government’s fight with Apple could backfire big time

Monday, March 14, 2016 11:03 amMonday, March 14, 201617 Comments

Ever since a court ordered Apple to provide the FBI access to an iPhone owned by one of the San Bernardino shooters…

John Oliver just smartly explained Apple’s fight against U.S. government overreach

Monday, March 14, 2016 9:58 amMonday, March 14, 201644 Comments

This is not simple. It’s a hugely complicated story with massive implications…

U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa at SXSW: ‘Hold your iPhone a little bit higher, so the FBI can hear us better’

Monday, March 14, 2016 8:29 am6 Comments

The outspoken Republican Congressman from California, whose background is steeped in the tech industry…

Why Apple is right to resist U.S. government overreach

Sunday, March 13, 2016 12:49 pm54 Comments

The FBI wants Apple to do something no private company has ever been forced to do…

Florida sheriff threatens to arrest Tim Cook if Apple resists encryption cooperation

Saturday, March 12, 2016 12:38 pm59 Comments

A Florida county sheriff has threatened to arrest Apple CEO Tim Cook…

Obama pushes for iPhone back door; Congressman Issa blasts Obama’s ‘fundamental lack of understanding’

Saturday, March 12, 2016 10:19 amSaturday, March 12, 201650 Comments

Obama sided with law enforcement Friday in the debate pitting encryption and personal privacy versus U.S. government overreach…

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch backs U.S. government overreach on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Friday, March 11, 2016 5:37 pm66 Comments

As the iPhone unlocking case becomes more heated, United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch went on late night television…

Want to see what the future holds if Apple loses? Look no further than Microsoft

Friday, March 11, 2016 4:52 pm13 Comments

If you want to see what a world with built-in backdoors looks like should congress rule on the side of the FBI…

Donald Trump seems to have given up his Apple boycott

Friday, March 11, 2016 3:57 pmFriday, March 11, 201617 Comments

Three weeks ago, Donald Trump announced an impromptu boycott of Apple products…

Former CIA Director: FBI wants to dictate iPhone’s operating system

Friday, March 11, 2016 3:28 pmFriday, March 11, 201620 Comments

The FBI’s attempts to force Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists…

Your browser’s private mode isn’t as secret as you think

Friday, March 11, 2016 3:06 pm4 Comments

Even when you’re in private mode, you’re still shuttling information between your computer and…

Why the government is citing Aaron Burr in its fight against Apple

Friday, March 11, 2016 2:31 pmFriday, March 11, 201623 Comments

The government is citing an 1807 case involving Aaron Burr in its court battle to compel Apple to write software…

U.S. government takes cheap shots at Apple

Friday, March 11, 2016 12:01 pmFriday, March 11, 201626 Comments

Both Apple and the government just pulled out some fighting words…

U.S. FCC proposes stricter privacy rules for Internet service providers

Friday, March 11, 2016 10:15 am10 Comments

You should be able to decide what data your broadband or wireless provider shares with marketers. Period…

U.S. government rebuts Apple claim on password reset in iPhone case

Friday, March 11, 2016 8:58 amFriday, March 11, 201632 Comments

A decision to reset the password on an iCloud account associated with one of the San Bernardino attackers…

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