A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday in favor of a man accused of accessing child pornography through Tor, finding that the warrant issued by a Virginia-based judge was invalid. The evidence of child pornography the government claims it found on the man's computers is suppressed, which likely makes continuing prosecution of this case significantly more difficult.
A federal judge sentenced journalist Matthew Keys to two years in prison Wednesday after he was convicted last year of three counts of conspiracy and criminal hacking.
Prosecutors had asked the judge to impose a sentence of five years, while Keys’ attorneys asked for no prison time. "When this court tries to make sense of what Mr. Keys did for a limited period of time, it was out of pique, it was out of anger at his former employer," US District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller said at the conclusion of the hours-long hearing.
A Detroit woman has filed a federal lawsuit claiming Apple stole her patented idea for a smart watch. “I was the first to put in for a patent for a ‘computer wrist watch,'” Daisy Washington-Gross said in the suit filed Friday in Eastern Michigan U.S. District Court.
Washington-Gross claims Apple’s watch infringed on her pending patent for the “Detachable Beeper Disc Digital Gym Shoe Computer Watch.” She’s demanding $2 billion.
The ongoing legal drama between Apple and the Federal Bureau of investigation has largely been characterized as an Internet privacy and security issue—and a constitutional one, too. It's also been characterized as a human rights issue. Now, the Rev. Jesse Jackson says it's about civil rights.
Clearly, the security, privacy, and human rights aspects of the fight are all somewhat connected to civil rights.
But Jackson's letter to the judge overseeing the legal battle between the tech giant and the federal government has put his own spin on the hot-button topic.
On Tuesday, The Guardian reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has changed its rules regarding how it redacts Americans’ information when it takes international communications from the National Security Agency’s (NSA) database. The paper confirmed the classified rule change with unnamed US officials, but details on the new rules remain murky.
Two brothers have been jailed for two years after mocking a judge on Facebook for handing them a suspended sentence for drug dealing.
Daniel Sledden, 27, and his younger brother Samuel, 22, from Accrington, Lancashire, were hauled back to court after the gloating messages were brought to the attention of Judge Beverley Lunt.
"Cannot believe my luck 2 year suspended sentance (sic) beats the 3 year jail yes pal! Beverly [sic] Lunt go suck my ****," Daniel wrote, just 40 minutes after escaping a jail term.
Judge Sheri Pym informed Apple that it must provide specialized software that will allow law enforcement officials to thwart iPhone's built-in security measures, specifically a feature that automatically erases handset data after a certain number of unsuccessful login attempts, the Associated Press reports (via ABC News).
Cryptography has become popular in the post-Edward Snowden era. Everyone seems to be worried about being spied upon and is looking for ways to avoid it. While the majority of users likely have nothing to hide, it's still a creepy feeling to know that someone can, and possibly is, checking what you say and do.
There has been a lot of talk about adding backdoors, mostly from those who want to spy and those who simply don't understand the technology. The latest of this is currently taking place in New York.
Lumosity – the maker of games that supposedly increase your mental agility – has coughed up $2m after being accused of false advertising.
And the San Francisco upstart will have to cut a further $50m check if it doesn't clean up its act.
Wearable technology company Valencell has sued both Apple and Fitbit, saying the two companies' devices infringe on various Valencell patents.
