An overview of Apple's three new “Child Safety” initiatives, what critics are getting wrong, and the completely legitimate slippery slope concerns from experts
*without asking.* https://twitter.com/... Kontra / @counternotions : If you must read only one article to see the absurdity of the bombastic headline regurgitation currently being spewed about Apple's...
Tim Cook shares his thoughts on privacy, tech regulation, politics, and the “rigged” San Bernardino encryption case, citing an inspector general report
@tim_cook at the #TIME100 Summit pic.twitter.com/EJTxoG0e8C @mashable : Tim Cook says “we don't want people using their phone all the time.” That's total BS. https://trib.al/N09QwqL pic.twitter.com/IG...
Report: iPhones send call history with phone numbers, dates, times, and duration to Apple's servers if iCloud is enabled; log is retained for up to four months
Apple emerged as a guardian of user privacy this year after fighting FBI demands to help crack into San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone.
NSA deputy director: agency couldn't crack San Bernardino shooter's iPhone because it hadn't invested in exploiting iPhone 5c, and is looking to exploit IoT
Jenna McLaughlin / The Intercept :
NSA deputy director: agency couldn't crack San Bernardino shooter's iPhone because it hadn't invested in exploiting iPhone 5c, and is looking to exploit IoT
The National Security Agency is researching opportunities to collect foreign intelligence—including the possibility …
Sources: FBI did not use Cellebrite to crack San Bernardino iPhone, paid hackers for undisclosed software flaw that was used to create hardware to crack PIN
FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone — The FBI cracked a San Bernardino terrorist's phone …
Government claims San Bernardino shooter had disabled iCloud backup system
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
FBI Says Resetting San Bernardino Shooter's Apple ID Password Not a Screwup
Look, it wasn't a f**k-up, ok? — That's the message from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which fired back this weekend at reports suggesting that rogue elements within San Bernardino county had...
Apple opposes court order over shooter's iPhone, says US government is asking it to build a backdoor to the iPhone, calls it a “dangerous precedent”
It Might Be Cops' Best Bet Katie Collins / CNET : Family of murdered soldier criticizes Apple's refusal to hack San Bernadino shooter's iPhone Don Reisinger / Fortune : Google CEO's Tepid Support Won'...
Secret Code Found in Juniper's Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors
Encryption backdoors have been a hot topic in the last few years—and the controversial issue got even hotter after the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, when it dominated media headlines.