Lobbying pressure from an alliance of big internet companies and civil liberties groups – and the resistance of one steadfast US senator – forced the Senate Intelligence Committee to withdraw proposed legislation requiring social media companies to report “terrorist activity” to the government.
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Apple iMessage’s end-to-end encryption stymies US data request
Apple recently told a US court that it couldn’t turn over to law enforcement messages that were sent between iPhones via Apple’s iMessage system, which uses end-to-end encryption. And the crypto-wars rage on.
The NSA is funding a ‘safer’ Internet of Things
A university project aims to build a lightweight virtualization architecture that can be used to bake cybersecurity into connected systems from the design phase.
iSpy? Researcher exposes backdoor in iPhones and iPads
A “backdoor” that Apple built into iOS for developers can be used to spy on iPhones and iPads by governments, law enforcement, or cyber criminals, according to forensics researcher Jonathan Zdziarski.
14-year-olds find manual online, hack an ATM during their school lunch hour
The bank didn’t believe the kids – who are both commendable white hats! – until they presented documents showing things like how much cash was in the machine.