NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a month, federal investigators have insisted they have no alternative but to force Apple to help them open up a phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. That changed Monday when the Justice Department said an “outside party” recently showed the FBI a different way to […]
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FBI may be able to crack iPhone without Apple’s help
LOS ANGELES — The government has been adamant for weeks: FBI investigators need to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, and Apple Inc. was the only one that could do it. In a stunning reversal on Monday, federal prosecutors asked a judge to halt a much-anticipated hearing on their […]
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‘Customs’ scam robs Industry man
FARMINGTON — An Industry man is out $1,000 in a sweepstakes scam, after two men claiming to be FBI or U.S. Customs agents flashed badges and told the man he won $800,000. Franklin County Detective Lt. David St. Laurent was told that two men showed up at the residence wearing suits and driving a dark-colored […]
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Apple pits privacy against FBI’s security argument before Congress
Lawmakers on Tuesday pressed FBI Director James B. Comey about the bureau’s demands that Apple help it unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. The Justice Department and FBI have tried to cast the issue as narrowly focused on one iPhone, but Comey acknowledged that if the government succeeds in this […]
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San Bernadino shooting victim’s husband agrees with Apple
A man whose wife was wounded during the San Bernardino attack has taken Apple’s side in its ongoing battle with the FBI over unlocking a iPhone used by one of the shooters. Salihin Kondoker — the husband of Anies Kondoker, who was shot three times, but survived the attack at Inland Regional Center on Dec. […]
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Apple vs. The FBI: 3 developments in fight over locked iPhone
Apple asks judge to vacate order to unlock iPhone Eric Tucker, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple Inc. on Thursday asked a federal magistrate to reverse her order that the company help the FBI hack into a locked iPhone, accusing the federal government of seeking “dangerous power” through the courts. The filing represents Apple’s first […]
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Why the FBI can’t hack the iPhone
UPDATE: Justice Department accuses Apple of refusing to comply with order WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is firing back at Apple for refusing to help unlock a phone used by one of the gunmen in the San Bernardino attack. In a new motion Friday, federal prosecutors say the company has chosen to repudiate a […]
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Silicon Valley finally backs Apple in encryption fight
Tim Cook has picked a fight with the U.S. government and Silicon Valley is joining his side. From Google to Facebook, the industry’s biggest names rallied around Apple’s chief executive officer after he vowed to resist a court order demanding it help unlock the iPhone of a shooter in a terrorist attack. Cook described the […]
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Sen. Angus King wants Congress to settle Apple-FBI dispute
PORTLAND — U.S. Sen. Angus King said Thursday he expects the Senate Intelligence Committee to consider legislation to address situations such as Apple’s standoff with President Barack Obama’s administration over customer privacy. The court fight between the FBI and the technology giant over access to a secure cellphone used by the husband and wife who […]
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FBI to investigate San Bernardino shootings as terrorism
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The FBI said Friday that it is officially investigating the mass shooting in California as an act of terrorism, while a U.S. law enforcement official revealed that the woman who helped her husband carry out the attack had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader on Facebook under […]