by Ron Paul. The FBI tells us that its demand for a back door into the iPhone is all about fighting terrorism, and that it is essential to break in just this one time to find out more about the San Bernardino attack last December. But the truth is they had long sought a way to break Apple’s iPhone encryption and, like 9/11 and the Patriot Act, a mass ... MORE
by Yoni Heisler. The policy debate sparked by Apple’s legal battle with the FBI has galvanized the tech world and has understandably attracted worldwide attention. At the core, Apple’s battle with the FBI centers on how we should strike a balance between user privacy and the interests of national security. Yesterday, both Apple and the FBI appeared ... MORE
Contradictory ruling to that in San Bernardino. The U.S. Justice Department cannot force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data in a routine Brooklyn drug case, a New York judge says. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein made the ruling on Monday. The decision follows a California magistrate judge's order requiring ... MORE
Liberty and safety are not in equipoise. There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.” -Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016). After the San Bernardino massacre on Dec. 2, 2015, the FBI lawfully acquired the cellphone of one of the killers and ... MORE
by Joshua Kopstein. “The most important tech case in a decade.” Earlier this week, the U.S. government dropped a bombshell in its ongoing crusade against strong encryption: A court order demanding that Apple help the Federal Bureau of Investigation bypass the security features of an iPhone recovered from Syed Rizwan Farook, who, along with his ... MORE
by Brian Barrett. Do not be misled. Throughout the ongoing fight between Apple and the FBI over custom access to an iPhone used by one of the two terrorists who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, the government has framed the argument as a simple trade-off: You must surrender a little privacy if you want more security. The scales don't balance quite ... MORE
by Scott Shackford. FBI Director James Comey starts his defense
of their effort to force Apple to help them break into the iPhone of
San Bernardino terrorist and killer Syed Farook with a sentence that is
that is extremely hard to take seriously: "The San Bernardino litigation
isn't about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message." ... MORE
by Tim Hardwick. Privacy campaigners held organized rallies across the US yesterday to protest the FBI's demands that Apple unlock the iPhone at the center of its San Bernardino shooter investigation. Following on from limited protests in California last week, rallies extended from Albuquerque to Washington DC to support Apple's insistence that complying ... MORE
by Elias J. Atienza. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) told
CN2 that Apple shouldn’t be compelled to hack the encrypted iPhone of
San Bernadino shooter, Syed Farook. Apple has strongly opposed a court
ordered request by the FBI to open the phone, citing that it could
create a backdoor and weaken the security and privacy of users. “What’s extraordinary ... MORE
But gov't wants the keys to ALL phones. Using an obscure law, written in 1789 — the All Writs Act — the US
government has ordered Apple to place a back door into its iOS software
so the FBI can decrypt information on an iPhone used by one of the San
Bernardino shooters. It has finally come to this. After years of arguments by virtually ... MORE
Side fighting for individual liberty is not the government. Tuesday night, a California court ordered Apple to assist the FBI in hacking an iPhone. It’s an unprecedented request, one with potentially huge repercussions for the privacy and security of every Apple customer. This morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook posted an impassioned defense ... MORE
by Lance Whitney. Imagine not being able to buy an iPhone in your state because the device's data is protected by encryption. A couple of Congressmen are trying to make sure that can't happen. The Encrypt Act of 2016, short for Ensuring National Constitutional Rights of Your Private Telecommunications Act, would deny states the power to block ... MORE