Connectivity With James Comey Out at the FBI, American Privacy Could Take a Hammering His replacement is likely to be even more anti-encryption and pro-surveillance. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-05-10T11:20:00-04:00
Connectivity When Gadget Fixers Turn FBI Informants Members of Best Buy’s Geek Squad passed incriminating evidence to the law enforcement agency and received payments from agents. by Jamie Condliffe 2017-01-11T12:40:00-05:00
Rewriting Life On Patrol with America’s Top Bioterror Cop Will garage gene editing unleash a biological plague? Special Agent Ed You is ready if it does. by Antonio Regalado 2016-10-20T00:00:00-04:00
Connectivity The Spies Who Loved iPhones U.S. intelligence agencies know better than anyone how vulnerable today’s technologies are to being infiltrated—but some spies are getting smartphones and Wi-Fi anyway. by Jamie Condliffe 2016-09-22T11:25:00-04:00
Connectivity Apple Doubles Down on New Openness for iPhone Code It just got even easier for outsiders to scrutinize the workings of Apple’s mobile operating system, which could boost security. by Tom Simonite 2016-07-06T16:00:00-04:00
Tech Policy Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race. The available evidence suggests that face matching systems don’t work equally well for different races. by Mike Orcutt 2016-07-06T00:00:00-04:00
Connectivity As It Searches for Suspects, the FBI May Be Looking at You Questions about accuracy and transparency plague the bureau’s five-year-old face matching system. by Mike Orcutt 2016-06-23T13:08:00-04:00
Connectivity Apple Opens Up iPhone Code in What Could Be Savvy Strategy or Security Screwup A preview of Apple’s next mobile operating system upgrade revealed some of the system’s inner workings for the first time and suggests that the company wants help finding security flaws. by Tom Simonite 2016-06-21T13:03:00-04:00
Connectivity Customer Headaches Could Curtail Apple’s Encryption Push Apple’s Tim Cook says he doesn’t want his company to be able to read customer data—but he probably can’t make that happen. by Tom Simonite 2016-06-07T00:00:00-04:00
Connectivity Who Made Tim Cook King? Why Apple needs to make some concessions to rights and interests beyond privacy. by Jason Pontin 2016-04-26T00:00:00-04:00