The tech world has finally thrown their support behind Apple in the legal war against the FBI. Facebook, Google, and Amazon, along with Yahoo and Pinterest, filed a joint amici curiae brief in court in support of Apple. In it, they acknowledge that they compete with Apple and that they support law enforcement efforts to solve crimes. However, they…
Last week, Libertarian Party presidential candidate John McAfee took a gigantic step in defending Apple’s decision to refuse to hack into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Speaking with Business Insider, John McAfee claimed that the government is violating the 13th Amendment if it forces Apple to create a backdoor for the phone. McAfee’s legal team claims that…
By Andrew Follett Warren Buffett attacked fellow billionaire Elon Musk Monday, escalating their conflict over solar power subsidies in Nevada. “Musk wants the million people to subsidize the 17,000 just like the rest of Nevada is subsidizing his battery plant,” Buffett told CNBC, referring to a solar energy policy called net metering. Net metering policies…
Yesterday, a New York City federal judge denied the Department of Justice’s request for a court order that would force Apple to hack into the iPhone of a Brooklyn drug dealer. Judge James Orenstein ruled that federal government cannot use the All Writs Act of 1789 to compel Apple to hack into the iPhone. He argued that…
Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) has called on the FBI to withdraw their demands for Apple to break into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. In a letter addressed to FBI Director James Comey, Lieu suggested, “We should all take a breath and talk to each other, rather than use a lawsuit to circumvent…
by Elias J. Atienza Actor Adam Baldwin of the TNT show “The Last Ship” has officially jumped off the ship known as Twitter. Coming after Twitter has announced a ‘Trust and Safety Council’ and allegedly started “shadowbanning” accounts, Baldwin is just one of many people leaving the platform. He told the Independent Journal Review that Twitter’s…
by Micah J. Fleck It seems 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump is on the side of the FBI when it comes to the recent fight between said entity and Apple Computers, the latter of which is refusing the former’s request to open up hackable pathways into their iPhone network in order to counter potential threats….
John McAfee, Libertarian Party candidate and cybersecurity guru, penned an op-ed in Business Insider to the FBI and to the public, offering to decrypt the San Bernadino phone for free using social engineering. In the op-ed he blasted the U.S government for using the All Writs Act of 1789 to order Apple to place a backdoor into…
Apple refuses to give FBI backdoor to users’ data Apple made huge news today when they announced that they will not be cooperating with federal authorities that have requested they hack into the iPhone of belonging to one of the shooters in last December’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino. A federal magistrate has ordered Apple…
by Elias J. Atienza According to an exclusive with Breitbart Tech, Twitter is apparently ‘shadowbanning’ accounts that are ‘politically inconvenient.’ This comes from a source inside the company who spoke with Breitbart Tech. According to the article, this has been corroborated by a senior editor at a ‘major publisher.’ The source claims that Twitter maintains a ‘whitelist’ of favored…