Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken the debate of whether or not the government should be allowed to access the personal data held within iPhones to the media. In a recent interview, Cook tried to […]
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Apple’s Tim Cook Goes Head To Head With Government Over Encryption
Apple CEO Tim Cook is strongly pushing for the American government to put a “no backdoors” policy in place with regards to encryption. Like many prominent technology executives, Cook is fighting to protect the privacy […]
Officials Trying To Use 226 Year Old Law To Bypass Mobile Phone Securities
In their latest desperate attempt to put a stop to encryption practices that prevent their access to personal data on mobile phones, the United States government tried to use an 18th century law to get […]
FBI Director Wants Safe Encryption Practices Stopped To Better Suit His Needs
FBI boss James Comey believes tech companies offering end-to-end encryption should reconsider their business model, replacing them with encryption techniques that intercept and turnover communications to law enforcement when necessary. End-to-end encryption is state-of-the art […]
Blackberry Closes Business In Pakistan To Avoid State’s Email Monitoring
BlackBerry Ltd. is closing shop in Pakistan in order to sidestep allowing authorities to monitor its e-mail messages and business enterprise server (BES). Cellphone providers have been notified that as of the end of this […]
Pentagon Communications Network Is So Secure That Even ISIS Uses It
Silent Circle, a Pentagon communications provider, is upping its vetting of subscribers after learning that ISIS is using its secure messaging app to evade surveillance. The app was voted most secure of the reportedly 21 […]
After Recent Demonization Of Encryption, Officials Find That Paris Attackers Coordinated Without Encryption
It has recently been discovered that the terrorists conducting the attacks in Paris were communicating using un-encrypted servers. The news comes after many security and intelligence officials used the recent attacks as a means of […]
U.S. Government Hopes To Exploit Paris Attacks To Ban Citizen Privacy
Lawmakers are using the recent terrorist attacks in Paris as an excuse to attack methods of encryption. They are saying that if the terrorists hadn’t been able to communicate on encrypted devices, they would have […]
CIA Trying To Tie Paris Attacks To Their Own Encryption Agenda
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, many people are wondering why the attack wasn’t able to be prevented. Now, several technology officers are claiming that encryption prevented security forces from discovering the […]
In Attempt To Bolster Cyber Security, ISIS Has Set Up Tech Help Desk For Recruits
Terror group ISIS has increased its cyber sophistication by adding and running a help desk to train radical jihadists to use encrypted communications. Aaron F. Brantly of the US Army Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) says […]
Google Is Upping Its Email Security Services To Foil Hackers
According to recent reports, email servers are becoming more secure, and the use of strong encryption practices are increasing. However, the news isn’t all good, as the number of internet attacks that change encrypted connections […]
Petition Receives 100,000 Signatures, Now Obama Must Respond To Encryption Concerns
Major Internet players, technology companies, human rights groups and civil liberty organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Twitter and Reddit successfully gathered over 100,000 signatures on a petition – dealing with the issue […]
Security Officials Still Want To Violate Your Privacy By Weakening Encryption
Director of the FBI James Comey has stated that President Barack Obama will not work towards laws that would require technology companies to weaken their encryption systems by creating backdoors. Despite this, the American government […]
The FBI Uses Hacking To Get Around Encryption
While the FBI and other security agencies claim that encryption is preventing law enforcement officials from doing their jobs, they actually have a proven method to get around encryption. That method is good old-fashioned hacking. […]
Obama Administration Looking into Encryption-Breaking Methods
The Obama administration has looked into four different approaches which tech companies could utilize that would enable law enforcement officials to unlock encrypted devices. Some tech firms claim that their systems are not designed to […]
Plan To Ban Encryption Would Leave Door Open For Hackers
The United Kingdom’s quest to ban strong encryption, and reduce the privacy rights of internet users, has gotten so extreme that it could even result in popular apps like Whatsapp being banned in the country. […]
Russia And China Have Reportedly Cracked The Encryption On Edward Snowden’s Document Stash
Reports have emerged Sunday, from ‘Five Eyes’ collaborator Britain, that Russia and China have managed to crack the strong encryption used by Edward Snowden on his stash of top secret U.S. intelligence documents. In response […]
FBI Tries To Use ISIS To Get Apple And Google To Backdoor Their Products
Pedophiles and terrorists are the two bogeymen used by law enforcement to get people to surrender their rights and acquiesce to short circuiting the rule of law. The general line is that ‘if you don’t […]
Google Leaves Backdoor In Hangouts For Easy Warantless Wiretapping
Google, a known NSA collaborator, has done its very best to muddy the waters about its cooperation with the unconstitutional spy programs. While on one hand allowing NSA wiretapping of its servers on the other […]