Court: Government May ‘Seize’ Citizens’ Fingerprints To Unlock Apple Devices

“If Apple’s move leads us to abandon knowledge-based authentication altogether, we risk inadvertently undermining the legal rights we currently enjoy under the Fifth Amendment.”

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
An Apple employee instructs a journalist on the use of the fingerprint scanner technology built into the company's iPhone 5S during a media event in Beijing. Watchdog groups are concerned that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are searching the phones and other digital devices of international travelers at border checkpoints in U.S. airports. (AP/Ng Han Guan)

A federal court ruled the United States government is not violating a citizen’s Fifth Amendment rights when they require a citizen to apply his or her fingerprints to a sensor so authorities can access a device. The government sought authorization to “seize” four residents so their fingers could be applied to Apple devices in a home in order to

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Wikileaks: CIA Has Been Bugging “Factory Fresh” iPhones Since 2008

The CIA has been infecting the iPhone supply chain of its targets since at least 2008.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
A man holds up his iPhone during a rally in support of data privacy outside the Apple store in San Francisco. (AP/Eric Risberg)

A new WikiLeaks Vault 7 leak titled “Dark Matter” claims that the Central Intelligence Agency has been bugging “factory fresh” iPhones since at least 2008 through suppliers.  The documents are expected to be released after a 10 a.m. EDT “press briefing” that WikiLeaks promoted on its

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Wikileaks Dismantles False BuzzFeed Article In One Tweet

When Buzzfeed News recently posted a tweet with an attached story which stated Apple had patched its IOS vulnerabilities described in Vault 7, WikiLeaks responded with a tweet of its own.

Jack Burns
By Jack Burns
Julian Assange

Last week, WikiLeaks dumped what seems to be authentic CIA documents which revealed, among other things, that the spy agency has a way of hacking into smart TVs in order to spy on targeted persons of interest. The data dump, known as the Vault 7 release, also showed the CIA has the ability to hack into Apple phones as well. While the conjugation of

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Apple Releases ‘Emergency’ Patch After Vulnerability Targets Human Rights Activists

Israeli security firm NSO Group, have been exploiting Apple vulnerabilities, in order to carry out and perform spying techniques on dissidents and journalists, alike.

Anon HQ
By Anon HQ
Human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor speaks to journalists in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. Mansoor was recently targeted by NSO spyware that can hack into Apple's iPhone handset.

The new “iOS 9.3.5 Update” released by Apple, applies to those using iPhones, as well as iPads. This is in order to patch up not only 1, but 3 zero-day exploits/vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities where found targeting the Apple users that target human rights activists, and was essentially found by a widely renowned UAE human rights defender,

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Apple And Others Help Customers Donate To The Red Cross, And Only The Red Cross

Despite yet more evidence of trouble with the Red Cross’ disaster response — this time to floods in Louisiana — Apple, Amazon, T-Mobile, and many others have made the venerable charity the exclusive conduit for helping victims.

Derek Kravitz
By Derek Kravitz
James Hennessy, a Red Cross mental health volunteer from Tallahassee, Florida, takes a photo of Old Jefferson Highway which he was hoping to cross to reach Baton Rouge in Prairieville, La., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016.

This month's epic flooding in Louisiana, which destroyed roughly 60,000 homes, is the worst natural disaster in the United States since Superstorm Sandy in 2012. And just like after Sandy and other disasters, local officials have been troubled by the Red Cross' response. Louisiana's governor has been so concerned by the charity's relief work

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Iran Takes Aim At American Sanctions By Threatening Apple

Bringing Apple officially into the country would be a huge victory for Iran, which has argued that the benefits of signing the nuclear deal and the easing of international sanctions have not brought the expected foreign investment into the country.

ICHRI
By ICHRI
Iranian youth walk in front of a recently opened unofficial Apple reseller.

Officials in Tehran have told Apple that it must open an office in Iran or face a nationwide ban on all Apple products. The ultimatum, officials say, is intended to capture lost tax revenue on the millions of iPhones smuggled into the country every year, but experts say the real goal is to weaken US sanctions that currently restrict investment

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