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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 Apple’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 […]

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Federal judge orders Apple to help FBI unlock San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone 5c

A few months after the San Bernadino shootings, Apple was ordered by a U.S. federal judge on Tuesday to help the FBI unlock the iPhone 5c used by shooter Syed Farook. According to court papers, Apple “declined to provide [assistance] voluntarily.” The judge ruled Tuesday that Apple had to provide “reasonable technical assistance” to the […]

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Proposed bipartisan bill would prevent individual states from mandating backdoor access to encryption protocols

The plot may yet become even more intricate when it comes to states require backdoors into encryption. A bipartisan bill introduced to the U.S. House of Represenatives on Wednesday would bar individual states and localities from requiring backdoors in encryption, something often demanded by law enforcement officials and intelligence agencies. The ENCRYPT Act, sponsored Democrat […]