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The debate over the government’s authority to access private encrypted data on digital devices was amplified when the Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray called unbreakable encryption an ‘urgent public safety issue.’ Continue reading FBI Director Calls Smartphone Encryption an ‘Urgent Public Safety Issue’
The FBI can keep details around how much it paid and which company it hired to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone 5C in 2016 secret, the court ruled over the weekend.
Continue reading Judge: FBI Can Keep iPhone Crack and Price Secret
FBI says it’s impossible but Cambridge computer security expert proves them wrong. Continue reading iPhone passcode bypassed with NAND mirroring attack
Was the Federal Bureau of Investigation justified in paying over $1.3 million for a hacking tool that opened the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino terrorist? Continue reading Experts Weigh-In Over FBI $1.3 Million iPhone Zero-Day Payout
It’s good that Apple wasn’t forced to create a new vulnerability to allow the FBI to break into the San Bernardino iPhone 5C, and I am pleased that an existing exploit was used instead. But the FBI not telling Apple how it was done puts all of us at ri… Continue reading FBI paid over $1.3 million to hack into San Bernardino iPhone that contained ‘nothing of real significance’
The US Department of Justice has managed, with the help of an unknown third party, to successfully access data held on the iPhone 5C used by one of the San Bernardino killers.
But one wonders if they will share details of how they did it with Apple…
Continue reading The FBI has hacked into the San Bernardino iPhone
Apple says it has never agreed to any demand to change its technology—especially from China. Continue reading Apple’s Software Chief Denies Creating an iPhone Backdoor for Any Government
“Reply in Support of the Government’s Motion to Compel and Opposition to Apple Inc.’s Motion to Vacate.” Continue reading The FBI Filed Its Response to Apple’s Resistance to Backdooring the iPhone
Apple’s head of software engineering cautions that the FBI wants to turn back the clock on iPhone security, while the San Bernardino DA says a cyber pathogen may be dormant on shooter Syed Farook’s phone. Continue reading Apple: Court Order Turns Back Clock on iPhone Security