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Judges Toss Out Stingray Evidence
After all the reports in recent years about governments tracking and reading users mobile phones, it’s become known for the first time that a judge has thrown out evidence obtained via the mobile interception technology known as Stingrays. The 14-page opinion comes from district judge William H. Pauley. While this…
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Warrant Used To Track Users Through Tor Invalidated
When it was revealed that an NIT (network investigative technique) had been used to track people across Tor, people were worried about just how they had got permission to deploy such a far sweeping piece of computer malware. It would now seem that the warrant issued didn’t give as much…
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Feds Tell Court Apple Creates Technology To Thwart iPhone Warrants
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is currently working with the FBI in a legal battle against technology giant Apple. After being told to help unlock an iPhone through a software modification, the company began to argue that they could not be made to bypass their own security features by use…
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DOJ Appealing Order Found in Favor of Apple
Apple is everywhere in the news these days. From the rumoured features of their next generation of phones to the courtrooms. In a case that recently came to light in New York, the judge ruled that Apple could not be forced to unlock an iPhone by the All Writs Act.…
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Badmouthed the Silk Road Case Judge Online? You Could Be Prosecuted
The conviction of Ross Ulbricht for creating and running the online black marketplace Silk Road has elicited some heated reactions, with many attacking the case’s judge for ignoring Ulbricht’s plea for leniency in favour of making an example out of him in the war against drugs in her sentencing. Now,…
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Siezed Megaupload Domains Hijacked By Scam Ads and Malware
Megaupload domains that were seized by the US Department of Justice, as part of its legal action against company founder Kim Dotcom, have now been hijacked by scammers who are using the domain names to distribute malware and host scam adverts. Megaupload.com and Megavideo.com are now active again after the…
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