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If the FBI Is So Worried About Car Hacking, Why Is It Fighting Encryption?
It’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon and you find yourself in your car, bound for the supermarket. As you approach a stoplight you lightly apply pressure to the brakes, but your vehicle doesn’t slow down. Slightly more panicked now, you push the brake to the floorboard. Still nothing. Your panic reaches a fury pitch as you find yourself coasting headlong into the intersection and oncoming traffic. As the airbag explodes in your face, you can’t help but wonder how...
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Inside Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Fight With the FBI
In an exclusive interview with TIME, Cook discusses your privacy, America’s security, and what’s at stake in the battle over encryption. The day after the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., where Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik shot to death 14 people and wounded 22 others at a holiday luncheon for the county department of public health, an FBI Evidence Response Team descended on the couple’s townhouse in nearby Redlands.
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Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism, Clarke Says
David Greene talks to former national security official Richard Clarke about the fight between Apple and the FBI. The FBI wants an iPhone that was used by one of the San Bernardino shooters unlocked.
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White House Begins To Realize It May Have Made A Huge Mistake In Going After Apple Over iPhone Encryption
One of the key lines that various supporters of backdooring encryption have repeated in the last year, is that they "just want to have a discussion" about the proper way to... put backdoors into encryption. Over and over again you had the likes of James Comey insisting that he wasn't demanding backdoors, but really just wanted a "national conversation" on the issue (despite the fact we had just such a conversation in the 90s and concluded: backdoors bad, let's move on.).
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WhatsApp Encryption Said to Stymie Wiretap Order
While the Justice Department wages a public fight with Apple over access to a locked iPhone, government officials are privately debating how to resolve a prolonged standoff with another technology company, WhatsApp, over access to its popular instant messaging application, officials and others involved in the case said. No decision has been made, but a court fight with WhatsApp, the world’s largest mobile messaging service...
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Sidestepping Apple dispute, Obama makes case for access to Device Data
By Jeff Mason AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday made a passionate case for mobile devices to be built in such a way as to allow government to gain access to personal data if needed to prevent a terrorist attack or enforce tax laws. Speaking at the South by Southwest festival
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Amazon just removed encryption from the software powering Kindles, phones, and tablets
The company gave no explanation for its decision.
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Congress tells FBI that forcing Apple to unlock iPhones is 'a fool's errand'
The Justice Department is on a “fool’s errand” trying to force Apple to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, lawmakers told FBI director James Comey on Tuesday. Lawmakers of both parties sharply challenged Comey as the House judiciary committee considered the FBI’s court order to unlock an iPhone owned by Syed Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, in December and was killed by law enforcement.
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FBI and police are losing the encryption war
Password cracking can now be done at a reasonable price with enormous computing resources. At the same time encryption is getting better, is used more widely, and brute force will lose in the long term.
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U.S. can't ban encryption because it's a global phenomenon, Harvard study finds
After a two-year campaign from the FBI, U.S. intelligence officials, and powerful politicians calling for backdoor access into Americans’ encrypted data, a new Harvard study argues that encryption is a worldwide technology that the United States cannot regulate and control on its own. The study, titled “A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products,” aimed to catalog all the encryption products available online today.
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ENCRYPT Act Introduced to Prevent States Banning Cell Phone Encryption
Representatives Ted Lieu, Blake Farenthold, Suzan DelBene, and Mike Bishop have joined to introduce bipartisan legislation that would prevent state and local governments from banning cell phone encryption outright.
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The ISIS encrypted messaging app, hyped as a tool for plotting terrorist attacks, does not exist
After over a week of investigation, the Alrawi encryption app is nowhere to be found.
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Why Apple Defends Encryption
The Intercept recently reported that Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a private meeting with White House officials and other technology leaders, criticized the federal government’s stance on encryption and technology back doors (see “Tim Cook Confronts the White House Over Encryption,” 14 January 2016). As it was a private meeting, we don’t know exactly what happened, and The Intercept is admittedly biased on this issue, but such statements would...
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How a Small Company in Switzerland Is Fighting a Surveillance Law — And Winning
A small email provider and its customers have almost single-handedly forced the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum in June. “This law was approved in September, and after the Paris attacks, we assumed privacy was dead at that point,” said Andy Yen, co-founder of ProtonMail, when I spoke with him on the phone.
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California wants to ban encrypted phones
A bill in the state assembly would prevent companies like Apple from selling its encryption-enabled iPhone on its own turf.
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Keybase - 4 Invites Available.
Get a public key, safely, starting just with someone's social media username(s). Lets bring this tribe back! I'm going to go to sleep and will add the first 4 requests I get.
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The Long and Winding History of Encryption
The technology that keeps your text messages private had its start on the banks of the Tigris River, 3500 years ago. By Kaveh Waddell.
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Dutch government backs strong encryption, condemns backdoors
The move comes as other nations move to weaken encryption.
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Apple's Tim Cook defends encryption. When will other tech CEOs do so?
It seems everywhere he goes these days, Apple CEO Tim Cook is out there forcefully and publicly defending his company’s decision to provide iPhone users with end-to-end text messaging and FaceTime encryption to protect against the constant threat of criminal hackers and foreign governments. The question is: when will other tech company leaders follow his lead? If we’re going to avoid having a horrible law banning encryption passed in the next year...
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On the Juniper backdoor
You might have heard that a few days ago, Juniper Systems announced the discovery of "unauthorized code" in the ScreenOS software that underlies the NetScreen line of devices... By Matthew Green.
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