Ever since the FBI announced its plans to try to use the All Writs Act to force Apple to write new code, cryptographically sign it, and deliver it to the county government-owned phone used by the San Bernardino shooter, we at the...
You’ve seen them all over the internet: funny photos of kids singing in the backseat, dancing in the kitchen, fighting with their siblings, or serving side eye so devastating that it becomes an entire meme-theme. Those photos and videos can be...
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The wall separating “foreign” intelligence operations from domestic criminal investigations has finally, fully collapsed. The FBI now plans to act on a rule change initiated by the Bush administration and finally massaged into actionable policy by Obama: Soon, domestic law enforcement agencies like...
Sex worker Julie Simone recently tried to use Airbnb for the first time, but after successfully booking an apartment received an email notifying her that her reservation had been cancelled and her account had been deleted. Fusion reports that Simone received the...
Today the ACLU of Massachusetts testified before the state legislature’s Joint Transportation Committee in support of proposals to regulate law enforcement and corporate use of license plate readers and the data they produce. If you haven’t heard of license plate readers, here’s...
We keep learning more about the FBI’s battle to force Apple to write new code to weaken its security system. I’ve done a lot of media on the issue this week. Below you can see a clip of me on BBC’s Newsnight last...
Cell Site Simulators – often referred to as Stingrays, the brand name of one popular model – gather sensitive information about cell phone users by essentially tricking their phones into thinking they are communicating with cell phone company towers, when in fact...
California congressman Ted Lieu yesterday wrote FBI director Jim Comey a public letter, asking the nation’s top cop to withdraw “the FBI’s demand of Apple” that it “create software it does not have in order to weaken its smartphone encryption system.” The...
As I blogged this morning, FBI director Jim Comey wants us to believe that his agency’s war against Apple is only about one phone, not about setting precedent that will impact all phones and all electronic devices. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. As the...