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GrayKey enters market, becomes second firm to offer iPhone unlocking tool

A second iPhone unlocking company has just entered the market. A startup called Grayshift is advertising a tool called “GrayKey,” which costs $15,000 for an always-online version limited to 300 uses. An unlimited offline edition is priced at $30,000. Grayshift is said to be staffed by U.S. intelligence agency contractors and a former Apple security […]

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Apple acquires French software firm Regaind, could use APIs to help improve photo, facial analysis

Apple has acquired yet another company that might prove fruitful for image and facial analysis in the future. The company has acquired Regaind, a small French artificial intelligence startup focused on photo and facial analysis. As usual, Apple offered the following comment regarding the transaction: Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and […]

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Proposed bipartisan bill would prevent individual states from mandating backdoor access to encryption protocols

The plot may yet become even more intricate when it comes to states require backdoors into encryption. A bipartisan bill introduced to the U.S. House of Represenatives on Wednesday would bar individual states and localities from requiring backdoors in encryption, something often demanded by law enforcement officials and intelligence agencies. The ENCRYPT Act, sponsored Democrat […]

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Edward Snowden refuses to use an iPhone, cites backdoors, security reasons

Edward Snowden doesn’t trust the iPhone. Whether you trust yours is another matter altogether. Per AppleInsider and Sputnik, infamous former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, responsible for leaking thousands of pages of classified intelligence documents from the secretive spy organization, reportedly believes that the iPhone contains “special software” that can be remotely activated by […]