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John Oliver Devotes Whole Show to Apple Encryption Tiff

'Think of the government as your dad,' show host warns

(Newser) - First John Oliver took on Donald Trump . Now the HBO host is taking on Apple, the government, and encryption, a safeguard he labeled on Sunday's Last Week Tonight as "the best way to keep people from reading your emails short of making the subject line 'Fwd: Fwd:...

SCOTUS Rules on Gay Adoption, Apple ... Batmobile

And other Supreme Court decisions on this busy Monday

(Newser) - The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Alabama's top court went too far when it tried to upend a lesbian mother's adoption of her longtime partner's children, the AP reports. Before their breakup, one partner bore three children; the other formally adopted them in Georgia, which they were...

'Ransomware' Hits Apple for First Time

KeRanger spread through torrenting software

(Newser) - Apple users are no longer immune to the "ransomware" that has attacked PC users in recent years, locking their files or freezing their computers and demanding payment. Security researchers say a tainted version of a torrenting program called Transmission appears to have spread the "KeRanger" malware to Mac...

DA: Shooter's iPhone May Contain 'Cyber Pathogen'

One expert calls it 'blatant fear mongering'

(Newser) - A local prosecutor has offered an unusual justification for forcing Apple to help hack an iPhone used by a San Bernardino mass killer: The phone might have been "used as a weapon" to introduce malicious software to county computer systems. San Bernardino County DA Michael Ramos tells the AP...

The Apple Support Twitter Account Just Had a Huge First Day

It tweeted out 2,200 tips for users in 24 hours

(Newser) - "We’re here to provide tips, tricks, and helpful information when you need it most," reads the bio for the @AppleSupport Twitter account, which launched Thursday. Many, many people needed it. Business Insider reports that within 24 hours Apple's new customer service account had more than 121,...

FBI: We Screwed Up Trying to Unlock Phone

Apple, FBI clash at encryption hearing

(Newser) - Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell clashed with FBI Director James Comey at a congressional hearing on encryption Tuesday—and the latter man admitted that the hearing was taking place because the FBI messed up. Comey, who is trying to force Apple to unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed...

Judge: No Forcing Apple to Unlock (Another) iPhone

Decision gives Apple boost ahead of congressional hearing

(Newser) - A judge in New York has handed Apple a major victory in its encryption battle with the federal government. In a case involving the locked iPhone of a suspected drug trafficker , the judge ruled that the government can't use the 1789 All Writs Act to force Apple to weaken...

Apple to Judge in FBI Case: Reverse Your Order
Apple to Judge in FBI Case: Reverse Your Order
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Feb 25, 2016 3:09 PM CST

Apple to Judge in FBI Case: Reverse Your Order

Company files first official response in San Bernardino phone case

(Newser) - Apple on Thursday filed its first official response to a judge's order last week that the company help the FBI hack into a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. Apple asked the federal magistrate to reverse the order, the AP reports, and accused the federal...

Apple's Calif. Complex Is Making Weird Noises

Company won't say what's going on in Sunnyvale

(Newser) - Strange sounds emanating from a mysterious building in the dead of night. White cars following families as they walk their dogs nearby. Science fiction movie? No, just Apple's latest project. Residents of Sunnyvale, Calif., who live near a complex of buildings Apple started occupying in 2014 tell the San ...

Apple Reportedly Working to Fix Its Vulnerability

Effort began before San Bernardino shooting, sources say

(Newser) - Engineers at Apple are developing a technical fix that would make it even harder for the government to break into a locked iPhone. Sources tell the New York Times the effort began before the San Bernardino attack, and therefore well before a federal judge's order that Apple unlock an...

Bill Gates Bucks Tech Trend, Sides With FBI

The government is 'not asking for some general thing'

(Newser) - Bill Gates stands alone. Well, and with the FBI . In an interview with the Financial Times , Gates addressed the question of whether Apple should comply with the FBI's request (and a federal judge's order) to unlock the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, and in Gates' view, the specificity...

FBI Chief: Let's Calm Down Over iPhone Controversy

We don't want 'to set a master key loose on the land,' says Comey

(Newser) - The back-and-forth between the FBI and Apple over unlocking an iPhone didn't let up over the weekend, with FBI chief James Comey getting in the last word in a blog post Sunday evening, reports NBC News . "I hope folks will take a deep breath and stop saying the...

Feds: Apple's Fight With FBI Is a Marketing Stunt

Apple says the US asks for more than China

(Newser) - Things are getting pretty heated in Apple's showdown with the federal government . On Friday, the Justice Department suggested that Apple is only refusing to help investigators crack the phone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook because it wants to sell more iPhones, the New York Times reports. The stance...

Facebook, Twitter Back Apple in Encryption Fight
 Apple-FBI Showdown 
 Took Shape a Year Ago 
THE RUNDOWN
Feb 19, 2016 5:00 AM CST

Apple-FBI Showdown Took Shape a Year Ago

Legal showdown has been in the works for a long time

(Newser) - It's a battle that could shape the future of technology, and Facebook has chosen a side: The company issued a statement on Thursday signaling that it supports Apple in its refusal to crack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Facebook condemns terrorism, the company said...

Key to Apple Encryption Fight: a 1789 Law
 Key to Apple 
 Encryption Fight: 
 a 1789 Law 
the rundown
Feb 18, 2016 8:57 AM CST

Key to Apple Encryption Fight: a 1789 Law

Government trots out the 'All Writs Act'

(Newser) - A court has ordered Apple to help the FBI crack the security of an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardinio shooters, but CEO Tim Cook says that would be too dangerous of a precedent. Some related coverage:
  • We're in "uncharted waters," observes Time , because the
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Defiant Apple Refusing Feds' Order to Unlock Shooter's iPhone

'Unprecedented' demand is too dangerous, says Tim Cook

(Newser) - It's what the Wall Street Journal describes as a "watershed moment" in the fight over smartphone encryption: A court has ordered Apple to obey the government's demand to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, and Tim Cook is refusing to do so. The...

Apple Ordered to Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone

Company 'declined to provide that assistance voluntarily'

(Newser) - After more than two months of being thwarted by encryption technology —and by an uncooperative Apple—federal investigators have turned to the courts to try to get into San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook's locked iPhone. At a hearing on Tuesday, a federal judge ordered Apple to help the...

Never, Ever Try to Send Your iPhone Back in Time

People are ruining their phones by setting the date to Jan. 1, 1970

(Newser) - Setting your iPhone's date and time to Jan. 1, 1970, will instantly make you experience what life in the '70s was like—because you'll no longer have a cellphone. "I changed the time to January 1st 1970," NBC News quotes one poor iPhone user's...

Apple About to Be Dethroned as World's No. 1 Firm

Alphabet rising as iPhone sales slump

(Newser) - As the digital advertising market booms and demand for smartphones wanes, Alphabet Inc. could soon dethrone Apple as the world's most valuable company. If it happens, Alphabet will move to the head of the class just five months after Google reorganized itself under the holding company. The Silicon Valley...

Google Slipped Apple $1B to Show Search Bar

Both companies freaked out that figure paid for iPhone display was disclosed

(Newser) - An Oracle copyright lawsuit against Google offered up a coveted nugget about Google and another big company. Rumors have circulated for some time about how much Google pays Apple to keep its search engine bar as the default on the iPhone, and a transcript from the Oracle court proceedings now...

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