A look inside a $10 million cyber lab designed to crack iPhones
A new report goes inside an expensive crime lab that’s focused on cracking iPhone encryption.
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How worried should you be about Apple and end-to-end encryption?
A new report says the FBI has put pressure on Apple not to encrypt iCloud backup data. What does that mean, and why is it important? Let’s take a look.
Reuters: the FBI pressured Apple not to encrypt iCloud backups
Now you know why your iOS device backups in iCloud are not end-to-end encrypted whereas everything stored locally on your iPhone is key safe thanks to strong encryption.
Why Apple’s position matters on strong iPhone encryption
Expecting Apple to overcome encryption on a terrorist or criminal’s iPhone undermines the security the rest of us take for granted.
Apple denies public request from US Attorney General to unlock Pensacola gunman’s iPhones
The US government appears to be trying to renew its fight with Apple and turn public sentiment against strong encryption. This time around, the boogeyman of choice is “terrorism”
U.S. Attorney General asks Apple directly to ‘provide access’ to two iPhones used by Pensacola gunman
The United States Attorney General has made a straightforward request of Apple: unlock a pair of iPhones owned by the individual who recently attacked the Pensacola naval air station in the state of Florida.
The FBI wants Apple to unlock iPhones used by suspected Pensacola naval station shooter
The feds are seeking Apple’s help in unlocking passcode-protected iPhones owned by a man suspected of carrying out a shooting attack that took place last month in Florida.
Forensic expert calls Apple “jerks” and “evil geniuses” for making FBI’s work harder
FBI’s hacker has lambasted Apple for making iPhones hard to hack into.
Apple has been served with a search warrant in Texas shooter case
Texas Rangers have served Apple with a search warrant in the case of the Sutherland Springs shooting.
FBI couldn’t retrieve data from more than half of the mobile devices it attempted to break into
The FBI director calls it “a huge, huge problem,” saying Congress should reauthorize an expiring intelligence surveillance law.
FBI paid $900,000 for the tool to break into San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c
US taxpayers paid $900,000 for the tool that allowed the FBI to break into the locked iPhone 5c of the San Bernardino terrorist, according to senator Dianne Feinstein.
Apple and others join Google in resisting FBI warrant seeking emails stored outside US
Business Insider reports that Apple has joined Amazon, Microsoft and Cisco in filing a joint amicus brief in support of Google’s opposition to a warrant by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking to extract emails stored on non-US servers.
In response to the FBI warrant, a court in Pennsylvania recently ruled that Google must hand over emails stored on non-US servers. The joint filing claims the warrant could set a troubling precedent and force Google to violate foreign data privacy laws.
