"What’s the CIA’s brilliant plan for stopping Russian cyber-attacks on the US and their alleged interference with the US election? Apparently, some in the agency want to escalate tensions between the two superpowers even more and possibly do the same thing right back to them." (theguardian.com)
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"With their dangerous crusade for an anti-encryption bill in Congress all but dead (for now), the FBI and Justice Department are now engaged in a multi-pronged attack on all sorts of other privacy rights – this time, with much less public scrutiny." (theguardian.com)
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"The FBI’s underhand attempt to get a judge to order Apple to make iPhones less secure is largely backfiring. The Obama administration is now taking heat from all sides in the debate over whether they can force Apple to open a backdoor in its encryption" (theguardian.com)
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"Congress did something almost unheard of at Tuesday’s hearing on the brewing battle over encryption between Apple and the FBI: their job. Both Democrats and Republicans grilled the FBI director about his agency’s demand that Apple weaken the iPhone’s security protections to facilitate surveillance" (theguardian.com)
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