The Google Pixel 4a looked like an ordinary Google branded device, but the software didn’t feel the same. It came with a special FBI logging software.
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Have I Been Pwned is getting help from FBI after going open-source
It's only fair to share...
The intelligence agency will contribute its own share of compromised credentials that will be added to the Have I Been Pwned database.
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Pocketnow Daily: The iPhone 9 Design was just LEAKED!!(video)
On today's Pocketnow Daily, we talk about the possible design of the iPhone 9, specs of the Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 and more
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FBI needs Apple’s help to unlock a mass shooter’s iPhone
The FBI is trying to get help from Apple to unlock a password-protected iPhone that belonged to the shooter of the Naval Air Station in Pensacola Florida
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Face ID has become a new tool for law enforcement
Face ID is supposed to help you keep the information in your iPhone safe, but now it seems it's going to be more useful for law enforcement to get it
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GrayKey is the police’s best friend to crack into iPhone encryption
It's a small box that allows law enforcement officials to crack into an iPhone 6s or an iPhone X. Will it be useful in the next year?
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Android P rhymes with HP Elite x3 | #PNWeekly 295
The FBI recruited Best Buy employees as an arm of the law, but did it breach citizens' Fourth Amendment rights? That plus Android P and HTC phone feedback on our show!
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EFF: FBI used Best Buy Geek Squad to extract evidence for prosecutions
Was the support team of Best Buy acting on behalf of the federal government to sweep up evidence for child porn possession prosecutions?
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Yer A Wizard, Niantic! | #PNWeekly 278 (LIVE at 3p ET)
A new roving AR game for Harry Potter fans is coming around next year! Plus, more controversy around the Pixel 2 XL and iPhone X on this week's show!
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Associated Press, Gannett, Vice sue FBI for San Bernardino iPhone hack details
The highest-profile battle over privacy and technology has not ended. In fact, it may have only just begun with a lawsuit filed by three news organizations against the FBI.You may recall that the agency wanted Apple to decrypt an iPhone 5c in the possession of Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the perpetrators of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people and wounded 24 others. Farook and co-perpetrator, wife Tashfeen Malik, were killed shortly after their attack. The FBI claimed it ...
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John Chen: Apple “should have a basic civil responsibility”
BlackBerry CEO John Chen took the time at his company’s Security Summit this week to once again rip Apple, “the other fruit company” to shreds for defending its encryption against the FBI regarding an iPhone used by a suspect in a mass shooting.“I found that disturbing as a citizen. I think BlackBerry, like any company, should have a basic civil responsibility,” Chen said. “If the world is in ...
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Can India crack an iPhone? It thinks so
Who knows more than the FBI when it comes to breaking into iPhones? Police from Los Angeles. Maybe even India.Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad responded to a question about encryption by saying that “a tool for mobile forensics has been developed, which handles smart phones including Apple phones.”It is not known to what degree the tool works or if it ...
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LAPD cracked open an iPhone 5s before the FBI made San Bernardino hack
Chalk another loss up for Apple. And the FBI.Around the same time that the agency ordered the iPhone manufacturer to assist in decrypting an iPhone 5c that belonged to a gunman in the San Bernardino shootings, Los Angeles police were able to source a “forensic cellphone expert” to crack into an iPhone 5s that belonged to the wife ...
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FBI paid less than previously reported for iPhone hack (but still probably way, waaaay too much)
The story of the FBI’s efforts to access the iPhone 5c in its San Bernardino terrorism investigation may seem like it’s over – and has been over for weeks, following the agency dropping its efforts to force Apple to help break into the phone – but the story keeps going strong. And why wouldn’t it? This one has it all: technology, civil liberties, national security – we could go on. And even with the meat of the story wrapped up, we’re continuing to learn more and more about how this all went down. Last ...
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Brooklyn iPhone cracked by Justice Department, obviates case with Apple
The iPhone belonging to a confessed drug dealer in Brooklyn has been cracked into. But it wasn’t opened with the zero-day exploit that the FBI purchased supposedly from a gray hat hacker. Someone else just knew the passcode for the iPhone. Prosecutors in the case ...
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