Apple Engineers Could Refuse to Help FBI in San Bernardino Case
In the FBI vs. Apple battle over encryption, Apple's lawyers have said that the company will take this all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary. The big question looming...
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Obama Ignores Experts; Calls for Backdoors for Encryption
As the FBI and Apple wage battle over the rights of private citizens to protect their data and communications by using encryption, both the FBI and the White House have said...
FBI vs. Apple: More Than Meets The Eye
The FBI said it had no choice but to seek a court order to force Apple to create a backdoor into the iOS platform. But there are some facts of this...
McAfee: Gov’t Backdoors Are Destroying National Security
As the Apple/FBI case heats up, the surveillance hawks continue to insist that backdoors into the encryption that protects smartphones are necessary to address the threat of terrorists and other dangerous...
Apple, FBI Testify Before Congress About Encryption
Representatives of both Apple and the FBI appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Over a period of five and a half hours, the committee heard sworn testimony about the...
What’s Really at Stake in the Apple Encryption Case?
There is a lot at stake in the case of the FBI demanding that Apple create new software to enable the agency to circumvent the encryption on the iPhone of one...
Trump’s Apple Boycott Misses the Mark
Donald Trump has waded into the battle between the Justice Department and Apple over smartphone encryption. The controversial presidential candidate has called for a boycott of “all Apple products until such...
Fighting for Privacy: Apple Resists Order to Decrypt Terrorist’s iPhone
Earlier this week, a District Court Judge ordered Apple to build a backdoor into the encryption software used in the iOS platform used by iPhones. ...
Ousted Mozilla CEO Is Changing the Web Again
After Brendan Eich resigned as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation amid controversy when it was revealed that he had given $1,000 to support a California ban on same-sex marriage, he set...
Manhattan DA Fails to Make the Case Against Encryption
Last month Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. released a report claiming that new encrypted devices pose "a threat to law enforcement efforts" and are "a boon to dangerous criminals." His...
N.C. Senator Calls for “Backdoors” in Encryption
Last week, Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote an error-laden piece for the Wall Street Journal in which he claimed that "Encrypted devices block law...
Google Uses Education Apps to Spy on Students
A non-profit organization dedicated to exposing threats to digital liberties and preserving those liberties has accused Google of spying on students via the use of Chromebooks in schools. In violation of...
Windows 10 Is Malware; Deletes Users’ Programs
Windows 10 seems to be Microsoft's deliberate attempt to create the most intrusive operating system ever. If that is the goal, the software giant from Redmond, Washington, is succeeding. It seems...
Surveillance Hawks Blame Cryptography for Paris Attacks
Unsurprisingly, in the wake of last week's deadly attacks in Paris, there has been an escalating demand — by those always in favor of such things — for an increase in surveillance. There...
Net Neutrality Puts Political Websites in the Crosshairs of Censorship
When Net Neutrality was sold to the American people, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler promised there would be no regulation of content. No censorship. The rules would allow the FCC to regulate...