This is a big week for mobile announcements because of Mobile World Congress and BlackBerry didn’t disappoint. In the shadow of Apple’s FBI problems, BlackBerry isn’t just doubling down on security it is tripling down. BlackBerry announced three major events: […]
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UPDATE: Watch the complete exclusive extended interview of Tim Cook from “World News Tonight with David Muir”: Credit ABC News / “World News Tonight with David Muir” ————————————————————————————————– Tim Cook has taken a bold stand on privacy. He has been
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Terrorism is a real threat and we all expect the government and law enforcement agencies to be vigilant in defending us against attacks. The effort to protect us from terrorism, however, can’t include surrendering the freedoms, rights, and privileges that
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As new tech devices were given as gifts this past holiday season the old models were discarded to junk drawers or sold for cash. Many without being wiped so personal data like phone books, photos and other files are still
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With all of the drama surrounding the dispute between the FBI and Apple, and Apple’s heroic and customer-centric stance to not create any back door into its products, a number of other questions have occurred to me that folks don’t
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The US government and law enforcement agencies want to make sure terrorists and criminals can’t hide behind encryption. The solution, apparently, is to try and force vendors to build backdoors through the encryption. The problem with that “solution” is that
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This month the Obama administration sent its big guns to Silicon Valley in an effort to get the computer makers to open up back doors in their systems so that law enforcement could more easily gain access to data. Tim
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Account takeovers are increasingly affecting a growing population of online user accounts due to a confluence of threats, such as weak consumer password practices, frequent mass data breaches and brute force attacks against web properties. The scope, scale and frequency
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My kids are all past the VTech stage, but we have owned our fair share of VTech technology and educational toys over the years. It’s safe to say there’s a pretty good chance that I–and possibly one or more of
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The recent attack in Paris by Daesh terrorists has raised the debate over privacy versus the surveillance state to a fever pitch. Supporters of surveillance in the name of national security are using the event to attack Edward Snowden and
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