Three new changes in federal court rules have vastly expanded law enforcement’s ability to hack into computers around the world.
Source : So … Now the Government Wants to Hack Cybercrime Victims | WIRED
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“If the government can circumvent the process merely by buying vulnerabilities, then the process becomes a farce. The FBI is not interested in cybersecurity.’’
Source : FBI Plans to Keep Apple iPhone-Hacking Method Secret – WSJ
The United States has opened a new line of combat against the Islamic State, directing the military’s six-year-old Cyber Command for the first time to mount computer-network attacks that are now being used alongside more traditional weapons.
Source : U.S. Cyberattacks Target ISIS in a New Line of Combat – The New York Times
Apple takes our commitment to protecting your data very seriously and we work incredibly hard to deliver the most secure hardware, software and services available. We also believe every customer has a right to understand how their personal information is handled.
For government information requests, we report as much detail as we are legally allowed. When we receive an account request from law enforcement requesting a customer’s personal information, we will notify the customer a request concerning their personal data was made unless we are explicitly prohibited from doing so. We are reserving the right to make exceptions, such as for extreme situations when we believe disclosing information could put a child or other person in serious danger, or where notice is not applicable to the underlying facts of the case.
When it comes to doing the right thing in difficult situations, BlackBerry’s guiding principle has been to do what is right for the citizenry, within legal and ethical boundaries. We have long been clear in our stance that tech companies as good corporate citizens should comply with reasonable lawful access requests. I have stated before that we are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good.
Source : Lawful Access, Corporate Citizenship and Doing What’s Right | Inside BlackBerry
The debate around encryption is too focused on one side of the security coin, in particular its potential use for criminal purposes in times of terrorism. The other side of the security coin, is that weakening encryption protections may bring even bigger dangers to national and international security
Source : Apple-FBI case could have serious global ramifications for human rights: Zeid
Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and free expression from DDoS attacks on the web.
Source : Project Shield | Jigsaw
Sheri Pym, the federal judge, has ordered Apple not to turn off its encryption but to make it easier for federal agents to randomly guess the suspects’ iPhone passcode. Apple has built a security feature into iPhones so that a phone slows down anyone trying to “brute force” his way into a phone by guessing passcode after passcode.
Source : Apple ordered to decrypt iPhone of San Bernardino shooter for FBI | US news | The Guardian
In 2015, the FBI seized a Tor-hidden child-porn website known as Playpen and allowed it to run for 13 days so that the FBI could deploy malware in order to identify and prosecute the website’s users. That malware, known in FBI-speak as a « network investigative technique, » was authorized by a federal court in Virginia in February 2015.
Source : After FBI briefly ran Tor-hidden child-porn site, investigations went global | Ars Technica
Les gouvernements se réunissent jeudi 12 novembre à Genève pour débattre de l’avenir des « robots tueurs ». Amnesty International demande l’ouverture d’un processus formel de négociations en vue d’instaurer une interdiction au niveau mondial des robots tueurs létaux et à létalité réduite, à la fois sur les champs de bataille et lors des opérations de maintien de l’ordre. Voici 10 raisons qui rendent cette interdiction essentielle.
Source : 10 raisons pour lesquelles il faut interdire les «robots tueurs» | Amnesty International