Category: law enforcement
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Ring Cancels Its Partnership with Flock
Ring Cancels Its Partnership with Flock It’s a demonstration of how toxic the surveillance-tech company Flock has become when Amazon’s Ring cancels the partnership between the two companies. As Hamilton Nolan advises, remove your Ring doorbell. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier
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First Sentencing in Scheme to Help North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies
First Sentencing in Scheme to Help North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies An Arizona woman was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for her role helping North Korean workers infiltrate US companies by pretending to be US workers. From an article: According to court documents, Chapman hosted the North Korean IT workers’ computers in her own…
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Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted
Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted Lots of interesting details in the story: The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of hacker intrusions around the world, including eight staffers for the contractor i-Soon, two officials at China’s Ministry of Public Security who allegedly worked…
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UK Is Ordering Apple to Break Its Own Encryption
UK Is Ordering Apple to Break Its Own Encryption The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a “technical capability notice” as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring it to break the Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud for the benefit of law enforcement. This is a big…
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Friday Squid Blogging: Safe Quick Undercarriage Immobilization Device
Friday Squid Blogging: Safe Quick Undercarriage Immobilization Device Fifteen years ago I blogged about a different SQUID. Here’s an update: Fleeing drivers are a common problem for law enforcement. They just won’t stop unless persuaded—persuaded by bullets, barriers, spikes, or snares. Each option is risky business. Shooting up a fugitive’s car is one possibility. But…
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Details about the iOS Inactivity Reboot Feature
Details about the iOS Inactivity Reboot Feature I recently wrote about the new iOS feature that forces an iPhone to reboot after it’s been inactive for a longish period of time. Here are the technical details, discovered through reverse engineering. The feature triggers after seventy-two hours of inactivity, even it is remains connected to Wi-Fi.…
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What Graykey Can and Can’t Unlock
What Graykey Can and Can’t Unlock This is from 404 Media: The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world, is only able to retrieve partial data from all modern iPhones that run iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1, which are two recently released versions of Apple’s mobile…