Claim: FBI used mercenary hackers to access terrorist iPhone
(Cyberwar.news) For weeks there has been speculation that the FBI utilized a top Israeli cyber forensics firm to break into a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California, terrorists, but a new report claims the federal law enforcement agency actually turned to mercenary hackers, the Washington Post reported this week. The paper Read More
Apple lawyer: ‘If we lose to FBI, that will lead to a police state’
(Cyberwar.news) Apple’s top lawyer says if the company is forced to provide backdoor technology for an iPhone the FBI is attempting to access as part of a terrorism investigation, it would lead to “a police state.” In an interview with CNN/Money, Theodore “Ted” Olsen, a former solicitor general under the George W. Bush administration, painted Read More
