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Apple, FBI director James Comey to testify before Congress on March 1st

This is going to get even more interesting. It’s been announced that both FBI Director James Comey and Apple Inc Senior Vice President and General Counsel Bruce Sewell will testify at a March 1 congressional hearing on encryption issues, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee said in a statement on Thursday.

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Justice Department looking to have Apple help extract data from 12 additional iPhones

The plot thickens. In the midst of the controversy between Apple and the Department of Justice regarding the unlocking of the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, the U.S. Department of Justice is pursuing additional court orders that would force Apple to help federal investigators extract data from twelve other encrypted iPhones that may contain crime-related evidence. […]

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Apple working with FBI on San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, still refusing to create backdoor to allow entry

Following up on last week’s coverage of Apple, the FBI, the Department of Justice, Donald Trump screaming about things and the San Bernadino shooter’s locked iPhone, it turns out that Apple has apparently offered the FBI four different options for recovering data on the iPhone 5c used by Syed Rizwan Farook. None of those methods […]

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Apple iOS encryption battle could escalate to the Supreme Court

Apple’s cryptography fight could go all the way to the tippy top. Following tim Cook’s reply to the court order instructing the company to assist the FBI in breaking into an iPhone left any room for doubt about Appleā€™s determination to fight the matter all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, that doubt appears […]

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Apple releases updated iOS 9.2.1 variant to make amends for handsets affected by Error 53

A bit of an apology from Apple following the “Error 53” controversy. Apple on Thursday released an updated version of iOS 9.2.1, bypassing what the company has admitted to be a factory test of the Home button during start up. Apple released an updated version of iOS 9.2.1 to restore newer iPhones that were disabled […]