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FBI Will Help Local Police Unlock iPhones

The expansion of law enforcement powers puts Apple in an even trickier position. In a letter from the FBI obtained by CBS News, the agency has pledged to share its newfound iPhone-cracking ability with local police departments. This is a significant development in a debate over privacy that has had the tech world’s undivided attention for weeks. Here’s a section of the letter quoted by CBS: We…

Google’s International Women’s Day Doodle celebrates the remarkable women of the future Mashable! by Rachel Thompson National Security Experts Weigh in on the “Apple v. FBI” Battle – “If [the FBI is] lying, that would be a very, very big deal.”  Upvoted by Nick Dyen

“Apple is being mischievous here,” two national security experts at the Brookings Institution warned in a blog post last…

Encryption Bans and Backdoor Efforts Are Misguided, Harvard Study Finds

Any effort to ban encryption or provide government agencies with backdoor access would be unenforceable and prone to failure, according to a Harvard University report released last week. Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Security, and collaborator Kathleen Seidel, together with Harvard student Saranya Vijayakuma, identified and surveyed 865 encryption products…

U.S. Congress to federal agencies: You have two weeks to tally your backdoored Juniper kit

Juniper has issued patches for what it says is unauthorized code found in its firewalls running its ScreenOS.

Around two dozen U.S. government departments and federal agencies are being questioned by the U.S. Congress on whether they were using backdoored Juniper network security appliances.

In December, Juniper Networks announcedthat it had discovered unauthorized code added to ScreenOS, the…

Obama Won’t Seek Access to Encrypted User Data

The Obama administration has backed down in its bitter dispute with Silicon Valley over the encryption of data on iPhones and other digital devices, concluding that it is not possible to give American law enforcement and intelligence agencies access to that information without also creating an opening that China, Russia, cybercriminals and terrorists could exploit. With its decision, which…

The Power of False Narrative

U.S. President Barack Obama arrives from New York to the South Lawn of the White House in Washington September 29, 2015. (photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters)

  Robert Parry | Consortium News | Reader Supported News | September 30, 2015

  “Strategic communications” or Stratcom, a propaganda/psy-op technique that treats information as a “soft power” weapon to wield against adversaries, is a new catch…

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APPLE DENIES ‘BACKDOOR’ NSA ACCESS

  Apple said it had no “backdoor” in its products after a security researcher and a leaked document suggested the U.S. National Security Agencyhad unfettered access to the iPhone. Apple said on Tuesday in an email to AFP…