Showing posts with label smart phones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smart phones. Show all posts
Over 50 Rallies Take Place In US Cities To Support Apple
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 ... MORERand Paul Weighs In On The Apple-FBI Dispute
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 ... MOREJohn McAfee: I'll Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For Free So That Apple Won't Need To Give Gov't Back Door Access
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 ... MOREUS Bill Aims To Stop State Bans Of Encrypted Phones
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 ... MOREPolice State Update: Ex-Cop California Assemblyman Wants Encrytion Keys For All Cell Phones Available To The Police
by Cyrus Farivar. A second state lawmaker has now introduced a bill that would prohibit the sale of smartphones with unbreakable encryption. Except this time, despite very similar language to a pending New York bill, the stated rationale is to fight human trafficking, rather than terrorism. Specifically, California Assemblymember Jim Cooper’s
(D-Elk ... MOREThe Government Wants Access To Your Smartphone
by Christie Smythe. What you should know. “We’re not at war – we care about the same things,” FBI Director James Comey says of the struggle between the U.S. and the tech sector over how private your smartphone should be. The government wants to work with companies such as Apple Inc. and Google to stop criminals and terrorists ... MOREThe CIA Campaign To Steal Apple’s Secrets
by Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley. Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept. The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual ... MOREDondi Tiples: Why Edward Snowden Won’t Use iPhones
Beware of Apple secret spyware. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is adamant about not coming within 10 feet of an iPhone because he claims Apple has installed some nasty secret spyware on their products. Apple may be the world’s leader in smart phones, but NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is steering clear of the popular ... MOREHow The NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide
by Ryan Gallagher. In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit within the U.S. military’s Africa Command needed help to hack into Libya’s cellphone networks and monitor text messages. For the NSA, the task was easy. ... MOREMassive Spying Of Americans' Cellphones From The Air
by Ronald Bailey. The Wall Street Journal has a terrific article, "Americans' Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program," that details how U.S. Marshals Service aircraft deploy "dirtbox" technology to spy on millions of Americans' cellphones from above. The dirtbox technology (so named as an acronym for the company that makes the devices, ... MORENew Police State Tools Detects Texting While Driving
by Jonathan O'Callaghan. A new revenue-producer for local for politicians. Texting while driving can be incredibly dangerous and in most countries it is completely outlawed. That doesn’t stop some thoughtless motorists from trying to compose a message while flying along a motorway, though, increasing the chance of a fatal accident. ... MORE
Craig Timberg: New Apple Encryption Will Lock Out Police
Serving consumers at government's expense. Apple said Wednesday night that it is making it impossible for the
company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even
when they have a search warrant — taking a hard new line as tech
companies attempt to blunt allegations that they have too readily
participated in ... MOREWashington Times Editorial: Water Vigilantes In California
Nobody likes a tattletale, but snitching comes naturally to a certain kind of busybody. The remarkable drought in California has produced a new category of righteous snitches called “water vigilantes.” They prowl through neighborhoods with smartphones, creeping through the shrubs and bushes in the dead of night looking for working sprinklers ... MOREGet A Warrant!: John Roberts Gives The Cops A Benchslap
by Damon Root. High Court decides police must obey the Fourth Amendment. The
Fourth Amendment protects our "persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Today, in the
case of
Riley v. California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
unanimously that this constitutional protection extends to ... MORESmartphone: Searchable Wallets Or Pocket PCs?
by William Jackson. The political-appointees in robes will decide. Smartphones contain a wealth of information that can translate into evidence in civil and criminal court cases, and law enforcement agencies increasingly are mining this data in their investigations. “If law enforcement or the government want to see your data, they can ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: A Sorry State Of The Union
What if the state of the union is a mess? What if the government spies on all of us all of the time and recognizes no limits to its spying? What if its appetite for acquiring personal knowledge about all Americans is insatiable? What if the government uses the microchips in our cellphones to follow us and listen to us as we move about? ... MOREThis Smartphone Is Making Privacy A Priority
Lily Hay Newman on a new innovation: Blackphone. The national conversation about privacy is in high gear, and services
for things like secure messaging have been popping up everywhere to try
to meet demand. But most consumers aren't really in a position to
evaluate whether these services can actually deliver on their ... MORE
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