”The government has now successfully accessed the data stored on terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone and therefore no longer requires the assistance from Apple Inc.,“ prosecutors wrote in the Monday filing, which does not explain precisely what was done. „Feds break through seized iPhone, stand down in legal battle with Apple“ Nicht aufgehoben, sondern aufgeschobenweiterlesen

On the eve of the arguments — and hours after an Apple product launch event — the government told the court that “a possible method for unlocking” the phone was demonstrated to the FBI by “an outside party.” The government is asking for the hearing on Apple’s challenge to the order to be canceled, withweiterlesen

Tim Cook, im Frühling 2014 gegenüber klimaskeptischen Investoren: ”When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,“ he said, „I don’t consider the bloody ROI 1.“ He said that the same thing applies about environmental issues, worker safety, and other areas where Apple is a leader. He didn’t stop there, however, as heweiterlesen

I became an engineer because I believe in the power of technology to enrich our lives. Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems — and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just as quickly, and when software is created for the wrong reason,weiterlesen

Apple engineers have begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar to those now at the center of a court fight in California, according to people close to the company and security experts. If Apple succeeds in upgrading its security —weiterlesen

This is a seminal battle between the biggest tech company on the planet and the most powerful government on the planet. This is why it’s important that we don’t get mired down in technicalities. For Apple, and for us, this is not a question of can we, but a question of should we. A questionweiterlesen

The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand. This moment calls for public discussion, and we want our customers and people around the country to understand what is at stake.weiterlesen

On Tuesday, Whatsapp announced that it’s implementing end-to-end encryption, an upgrade to its privacy protections that makes it nearly impossible for anyone to read users’ messages—even the company itself. Whatsapp will integrate the open-source software Textsecure, created by privacy-focused non-profit Open Whisper Systems, which scrambles messages with a cryptographic key that only the user canweiterlesen