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Apple announces media event for Monday, March 21st at 10 AM

Give it enough time and eventually Apple catches up to the rumors. Apple has announced a special event for members of the press at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, March 21st, at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino. The event will be streamed via apple.com and can be accessed from any Mac running OS X 10.8.5 or […]

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Proposed California State Assembly Bill could work against smartphone encryption

For California smartphone users, this hits pretty close to home. Assembly Bill 1681, a California State Assembly bill, would ban default encryption on all smartphones. The bill, introduced in January by Assemblymember Jim Cooper, would require any smartphone sold in California “to be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating […]