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  • FCC Commissioner Says they Aren’t Really Helping the Average Citizen

    FCC Commissioner Says they Aren’t Really Helping the Average Citizen

    In an interview, prior to leaving the FCC, former Commissioner Mignon Clyburn took aim at the agency where she worked for nearly nine years.  Her biggest criticism was that it had abandoned its mission to protect consumers’ speech and privacy.  Clyburn made an interesting characterization. She equated the FCC’s mission to the Starfleet Prime Directive,…

  • FBI Was Misleading About Needing Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone

    FBI Was Misleading About Needing Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone

    This is some shady business practices right here, folks. A Department of Justice investigation has concluded that the FBI misled Congress when it said that it had exhausted all attempts to access the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers.  Some reports are saying “inadvertently”, but I wonder if that’s actually the case. …

  • U.S. Intelligence is Paranoid That China is Spying Through Smartphones

    U.S. Intelligence is Paranoid That China is Spying Through Smartphones

    There has been a lot of discussion lately on whether or not devices should come with some kind of “backdoor” measure so that the government can access iPhones belonging to suspects in criminal cases.  Last year, the FBI wanted to force Apple into this kind of arrangement, and now we have a different scenario to…