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...

In the years since Edward Snowden claimed that U.S. intelligence agencies were tapping into Europeans’ personal data flowing to the United States through undersea cables, an icy distrust has prevailed be...

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...

This lede from the New York Times's Charlie Savage says it all:

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 ...

Our own contributor, Bruce Schneier, has just posted a survey of the worldwide distribution of cryptograpic systems. The entire report is well worth reading, but for those who need the CliffNotes versio...