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Apple-FBI: The Theories And Mysteries Of The San Bernardino iPhone

8:00am April 16, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

It's looking increasingly unlikely that the FBI will tell Apple how it got inside the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone. Speculation continues to surround the technique and its results.

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FBI To Help Arkansas Prosecutor Unlock iPhone Linked To Murder Case

8:31am March 31, 2016

by Doreen McCallister

Once the FBI announced that it had unlocked the iPhone of one of the shooters involved in the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., the bureau received other requests for assistance.

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Police Radio Chatter Is Open To All Ears. But Should It Be?

8:27am March 29, 2016

by Martin Kaste

Why are police radio communications in the U.S. open for the public to hear? Some say this creates a weakness when confronting terrorist attacks, but others say it's important for police transparency.

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A judge agreed to the federal government's request to delay a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday in order to test a possible method for unlocking Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone.

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FBI Says It May Be Able To Access Shooter's iPhone Without Apple's Help

9:58pm March 21, 2016

by Laura Wagner

A federal judge has postponed a hearing set for Tuesday that would have been the next step toward settling the battle between Apple and the FBI.

FBI Director James Comey told a congressional hearing on March 1, that encryption was creating

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How A Foiled Robbery Sheds Light On Apple's Clash With The FBI

2:30pm March 08, 2016

by Aarti Shahani

Is the FBI director right when he says that strong encryption is taking us to an unprecedented new world, where some places in our life are "warrantproof"?

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Tech Companies, Security Experts Express Support For Apple

8:26pm March 03, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Silicon Valley firms, human rights nonprofits and other groups have filed legal briefs in support of Apple's defiance of an FBI order. Some San Bernardino victims' families have filed in opposition.

San Bernardino Chief of Police Jarrod Burguan says the search of the iPhone used by one of the shooters is "an effort to leave no stone unturned" in the investigation of the Dec. 2 terrorist attack.

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San Bernardino Police Chief Sees Chance Nothing Of Value On Shooter's iPhone

4:59pm February 26, 2016

by NPR Staff

Chief Jarrod Burguan says the push for Apple's help unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters is "an effort to leave no stone unturned in the investigation."

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Lawyer Ted Olson, shown at the Los Angeles premiere of HBO's The Case Against 8 in 2014, is representing Apple in its legal face-off with federal investigators.

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Lawyer For Apple: 'What In The Law Requires Us To Redesign The iPhone?'

3:31pm February 26, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Former Solicitor General Ted Olson is one of the most prominent lawyers in America. He has taken up Apple's fight against the FBI over an encrypted iPhone.

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Director of the National Intelligence James Clapper, seated at the table meets with the Senate Intelligence Committee Feb. 9, including Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C. Burr and the committee's minority leader, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., are working on

In Apple-FBI Fight, Congress Considers Aggressive And Measured Approaches

11:06am February 25, 2016

by Brian Naylor

National security hawks want a bill that would order tech companies to open phones for law enforcement; other legislators think a panel should dig into the subject and make recommendations first.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook says creating new software to break into a locked iPhone would be "bad news" and "we would never write it." He spoke with ABC News' World News Tonight with David Muir.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Backdoor To iPhones Would Be Software Equivalent Of Cancer

8:33pm February 24, 2016

by Laura Wagner

In an interview, Cook reiterated the company's position that Apple will not create iPhone-cracking software for the FBI, as the government has ordered.