The escalating war of words between Apple and the FBI is widely seen as a “security vs. privacy” dilemma. But it’s much more than that. This is also fundamentally a security vs. security dilemma. Lost in...

From my perspective, the original Apple letter to its customers (“original letter”) and its answers to (frequently asked) questions (“answers document”) are slightly disingenuous in two ways. The origin...

Apple’s challenge to a court order requiring the company assists the US government in unlocking the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters has led to a discussion about what exactly Apple provides ...

The San Bernardino litigation isn't about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message. It is about the victims and justice. Fourteen people were slaughtered and many more had their lives and bo...

Don’t poke the bear! The Government plainly did not like Apple’s very public response to the magistrate judge’s order, and just filed this strongly worded motion to compel. Given that the prior order g...

I was privileged to take part in a good discussion today on KQED Forum on the Apple fight. The discussion included, in addition to me: Laura Sydell, digital culture correspondent, NPR Nate Cardozo, ...

Imagine that you are in the business of making safes. One day, you devise a novel safe for storing valuables. The safe is quite hard to break into, which is of course one of its selling points. But yo...

Note to Apple: As a general matter of strategic communications, following the words “We have no sympathy for terrorists” with a “But” generally means you’ve gone badly off message—even if you wedge a few...

In this latest dust-up between Apple and the FBI, Apple says that the FBI is asking for much more than access to one encrypted IPhone. Tim Cook writes that: Building a version of iOS that bypasses secu...

When I first read the court order in the San Bernardino case, I thought it was reasonable, as it is both technically plausible and doesn't substantially impact user security for most people. Even if App...

As just about everyone knows by now, the FBI has worked hard over the past year or so to draw attention to the "going dark" trend (i.e., the idea that the FBI is losing the practical capacity to execute ...

David Sanger has a new story (U.S. Had Cyberattack Plan if Iran Nuclear Dispute Led to Conflict) that leaves a very important question unanswered. Here’s the key paragraph: