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‘The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and American tech giant Apple will testify at a congressional hearing regarding a court order to force Apple to give the FBI data from the iPhone belonging to one of the alleged mass shooters in San Bernardino, California. Apple’s general counsel, Bruce Sewell, will argue Tuesday that creating […]

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It’s all over the news that Bill Gates is coming out publicly admonishing Apple for not bending over backwards to build a skeleton key that unlocks everyone’s cell phones for the FBI in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting. He’s twisting the narrative to make it seem like this skeleton key, once in existence, […]

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‘Over the last few days, a debate has raged about the responsibility of a corporation to national security: Should Apple concede to a federal court order and unlock the phone of San Bernardino mass shooter Syed Farook, which might reveal useful information about the massacre and the Farook’s network? Donald Trump thinks Apple should unlock […]

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‘In a published open letter entitled, “A Message to Our Customers, ” Apple CEO Tim Cook strikingly opposed a recent federal court ruling that would unlock a phone that’s been connected to the San Bernardino Mass Shooting case. The FBI ruling stipulates that Apple must provide access for one time only. However, cyber security experts […]

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‘Apple is trending on Twitter after CEO Tim Cook pledging to oppose a US court order to help create a “backdoor” to the iPhone. The move would have allowed FBI investigators to unlock an encrypted phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Cook published an open letter on Apple’s website Wednesday stating the […]

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‘Following publicity from major tech news outlets, Crypter, the encryption service designed to encrypt chat messages, has been blocked by social media giant Facebook. After Crypter, an app developed by Sussex University student Max Mitchell, was touted by the likes of BGR and TechCrunch earlier this week, Facebook “clocked on” to the encryption service, effectively […]

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‘Paging George Orwell… “Big Brother” is getting even bigger in China. In a development that the author of “1984” would surely have appreciated, China recently passed an “anti-terrorism law” that seems fundamentally an excuse for a clampdown. It also eerily mirrors calls by US officials for access to encrypted communications. China’s law requires telecommunications and […]

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‘The UK government’s official voice encryption protocol, around which it is hoping to build an ecosystem of products, has a massive backdoor that would enable the security services to intercept and listen to all past and present calls, a researcher has discovered. Dr Steven Murdoch of University College London has posted an extensive blog post […]

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‘Granting the feds a “back door” to encrypted software will give away access to “everybody,” including terrorists, Apple CEO Tim Cook said on 60 Minutes. The backlash from national security hawks has been unforgiving. “If the government lays a proper warrant on us today, then we will give the specific information that is requested, because […]

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‘On Friday, Congress passed a $1.15 trillion omnibus spending package to continue funding the federal government, which included an already defeated, and extremely controversial cyber security bill, that was inserted into the spending package as a means of assuring its passage. In spite of this massive revelation and horrific blow to privacy, the mainstream media […]

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‘You might not think that an academic computer science course could be classified as an export of military technology. But under the Defence Trade Controls Act — which passed into law in April, and will come into force next year — there is a real possibility that even seemingly innocuous educational and research activities could […]

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‘If the government has anything to do with it, privacy just got a whole lot worse. What the draft Investigatory Powers Bill holds for everyone is exactly what all the criticism was about in the first place – except it attempts to make it lawful. The Bill proposes that instead of deceiving every citizen in […]

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‘If the government has anything to do with it, privacy just got a whole lot worse. What the draft Investigatory Powers Bill holds for everyone is exactly what all the criticism was about in the first place – except it attempts to make it lawful. The Bill proposes that instead of deceiving every citizen in […]

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‘Here’s the deal. The UK government is trying to pass legislation that will prevent anyone from using strong encryption. What it means is “any encryption we can’t break is banned”. So Apple , which has great security and makes it quite clear that it doesn’t want to see users data, will have to make a […]

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‘Apple has reaffirmed its promise not to bake encryption “back doors” into its products. The decision marks a victory for privacy advocates and a rejection of the government’s goal of obtaining encryption keys. CEO Tim Cook made the announcement before an audience at WSJLive on Monday, saying that data privacy is a huge concern for […]

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