Here’s something you don’t hear every day. Cellebrite, a cell phone hacking vendor based in Petah Tikvah, Israel, claims that they can unlock any iPhone ever made, including the iPhone X running iOS 11.2.6 . Cellebrite, who offers their services to the highest bidder – mostly law enforcement and governments, both ones that have a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NBC is reporting that the Intelligence Community developed substantial evidence that Russian financed attackers compromised the voter registration systems or web sites of seven states to different degrees. Up until this time DHS has been completely mum about this, saying absolutely nothing. But now NBC is reporting that the seven states are Alaska, Arizona, California, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I wrote about the CLOUD Act last week, I expected this to happen; I just didn’t expect it to happen so soon. The CLOUD Act (see post) is an attempt by Congress to make it easier for U.S. law enforcement to force companies to respond to subpoenas for data when the data is not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For at least 8 years the government has known that the border entry system has a hole large enough to drive a terrorist through, to abuse a phrase, and has not done anything about it. While the government was twisting the arms of other countries to put chips in their passports – and about a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft has been fighting with the Justice Department for years over some data Justice wants that Microsoft says is stored in Ireland. Justice says Microsoft can bring it back to the US and then they can subpoena it. Microsoft says doing that will break EU laws. The argument goes on. The current status is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If I seem a bit skeptical, that is because I am. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced yesterday that the Justice Department is going to form a committee to study the subject. Last week the leaders of several of the branches of the Intelligence Community testified before Congress saying, publicly, that the Russians did interfere with […]
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