A Hollywood man must serve 180 days in jail for refusing to give up his iPhone password to police, a Broward judge ruled Tuesday — the latest salvo in intensifying legal battles over law-enforcement access to smart phones. Christopher Wheeler, 41, was taken into custody in a Broward Circuit Court, insisting he had already provided […]
FBI Paid Nearly $1M to Hack into San Bernardino Killer’s iPhone…
“I was so struck when San Bernardino happened and you made overtures to allow that device to be opened, and then the FBI had to spend $900,000 to hack it open,” said Senator Feinstein, (D-California) during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, according to AP. “And as I subsequently learned of some of the […]
iPhones Are iSpies (VIDEO)…
Most of us carry smartphones and watch web-enabled TVs without much thought. But the revelations found in Wikileaks’ “Vault 7” release warn that we should consider the sinister capabilities that such devices could lend to those who might abuse them. Since launching in 2006, Wikileaks has reportedly released over 10 million documents, including controversial disclosures […]
Chaffetz: Poor People Shouldn’t Buy iPhones If They Need Money For Health Care…
Apple Investigating Possible Explosion after iPhone 7 Catches on Fire, Melts (VIDEO)…
Apple is reportedly investigating an alleged incident of an exploding smartphone, after a teenager from Arizona uploaded a video showing her iPhone 7 Plus smoldering and melting. The video shows the rose gold exterior of the phone liquefying and smoking, revealing the mechanical insides. “Dude, what the fuck?,” the Twitter user, presumably named Brianna Olivas, […]
Florida Court Denies Protection for iPhone Passcode…
A man suspected of voyeurism can be compelled to tell police his four-digit iPhone passcode so they can search it for incriminating photos, a Florida appeals court ruled. Aaron Stahl was arrested after a woman who was shopping in a store saw him crouch down and extend an illuminated cellphone under her skirt…
SCOTUS Rulings: Court Chucks $399M Verdict in Apple-Samsung War…
Reversing Apple’s $399 million patent win, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that entire phones cannot be considered infringing even though the “innards of Samsung’s smartphones were not sold separately from their shells”…
Emojis Are So Big They Now Have Their Own Conference..
Emojis are having a moment. What with the New York MoMA acquiring the original set of emojis and Apple’s planned, and then rescinded, changes to its emoji keyboard for iOS 10.2, the tiny pictures on your phone have never been hotter…
iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says…
Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances without user choice or notification…
China Threatens to Cut iPhone Sales & Replace Boeing with Airbus if Trump Starts Trade War…
China will cut iPhone sales and order planes from Airbus instead of Boeing if Donald Trump decides to embark upon a trade war…Mr Trump would be “naïve” to start a trade war against the country and that China would respond with “counter-measures” if the US were to act in an aggressive way…