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A new report from NBC says the FBI is unable to access the Texas church shooter's phone. They're not disclosing the type of phone used because they don't want to promote its security capabilities.

In an attempt to help seek out the most wanted people in America, the FBI has published an application in the Play Store. Called FBI Wanted, this app lists a number of wanted individual and you can even place a direct call to the FBI from it.

Want to know where your hard earned money is going after you pay your taxes? FBI director James Comey recently said they paid more than he would make in the seven years and four months to unlock the phone. Reuters did the math and that comes out to at least $1.3 million.

The case about the San Bernardino iPhone may be over, but the debate about encryption certainly is not. A hearing called Deciphering the Debate Over Encryption: Industry and Law Enforcement Perspectives is happening on April 19th at 10am ET and you'll be able to watch a livestream of the...

The Apple privacy and security saga has come to an abrupt end. The Department of Justice and FBI announced a successful breach of the iPhone 5c used by one of the terrorists who coordinated recent attacks in San Bernardino, CA. The government originally asserted that they had no way of breaching...

The Department of Justice has just filed a vacate document with the courts to cancel(or just postpone) their court hearing with Apple that was scheduled for tomorrow. It seems the FBI was able to get in touch with some hackers that showed them their method of hacking into the iPhone 5c. If it...

A lot of the companies siding with Apple are direct competitors to them, or to each other, but that isn't stopping them from coming together to protect consumer data. Companies like Amazon.com, Box, Cisco, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Google, Mozilla, Nest Labs, Pinterest, Slack, Snapchat...

It seems everyone has a side to pick in the Apple vs FBI encryption case, and there are some new people joining in on the debate. Verizon Wireless has chosen to side with Apple and believes they should not be forced to hack into their own products. On the other side of the coin, every single...

Apple has told the court that the FBI's request to hack into their own products is unconstitutional and now more tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft say they will back Apple in their legal battle with the US government.

In a new interview with Financial Times, Bill Gates has stated that he believes Apple should help the FBI in getting access to the San Bernadino shooter's iPhone. Gates stated that the FBI is not asking for a general thing, but rather help with this one specific case.

It's been revealed that the 4th amendment has a loophole that allows the FBI to use dead people's fingerprints to unlock phones. This is because the 4th amendment -- a right to privacy -- can't be defended by someone who is dead.