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MacSurfer's Archive: Sunday, February 21, 2016
 

 

Analysis/Commentary/Editorial/Opinion
Apple vs. FBI
  • "Apple-FBI Phone Fight Gets Technical" Nasdaq 8:53 PM
  • "Here's What Steve Jobs Had to Say About Apple and Privacy in 2010" Re/code 7:27 PM
  • "FBI attempts to clarify shooter's iPhone 5c botched unlock timeline" MacNN 4:33 PM
  • "Apple or the FBI... whose side are you on in the iPhone privacy battle?" The Guardian 2/20
  • "The battle between Apple and the FBI just got weirder" Tech Insider 2/20
  • "In the Government vs. Apple, Who Wears the Black Hat?" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/20
  • "Let's surrender: A cold take on iPhone backdoors"  Macworld 2/20
  • "San Bernardino Health Department Changed Terrorists's iCloud Password at FBI Request" The Mac Observer 2/20
  • "What does it mean that a phone is encrypted?" USA Today 2/20
  • "Petition Asks White House to Stop Asking Apple for Backdoors" The Mac Observer 2/19
  • "How Tim Cook, in iPhone Battle, Became a Bulwark for Digital Privacy" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/19
  • "DOJ affidavit in FBI-Apple case reveals botched recovery" MacNN 2/19
  • "Apple Standoff: Bloomberg West" Bloomberg 2/19
  • "U.S., Apple ratchet up rhetoric in fight over encryption" Reuters 2/19
  • "Apple: We tried to help FBI terror probe, but someone changed iCloud password" Ars Technica 2/19
  • "Just how much access does the NSA have to all unencrypted communications?" BGR 2/19
  • "Public supports Apple in FBI fight, but feds dig in/Opinion: Government hopes to establish strong precedent for future" MarketWatch 2/19
  • "How Apple's Stand Against the FBI Could Backfire: Tim Cook may have chosen the wrong time to fight the government on its request for access to a San Bernardino shooter's iPhone." Slate 2/19
  • "The iPhone Fight Is Already Over: Law enforcement will win this bout but lose the larger battle over access to encrypted data." WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 2/19
  • "Apple Helped The Government Extract Data Before. Here's Why Things Are Different Now" BuzzFeed 2/19
  • "Do We Have a Right to Security?" Securosis 2/19
  • "Apple implies FBI screwup: iPhone Apple ID password changed in govt possession, backdoor unnecessary" 9to5Mac 2/19
  • "This isn't about one iPhone. It's about millions of them." Medium 2/19
  • "Why Every Millenial Should Care About Apple's Fight Against the FBI" Complex 2/19
  • "Apple Is Wrong About Encryption" Forbes 2/19
  • "Don't Crack the iPhone: Apple Is Not the FBI's Tech Support" PC Magazine 2/19
  • "John McAfee: We're on the Verge of a Cyber War" FOXBusiness 2/19
  • "Apple-FBI battle over San Bernardino terror attack investigation: All the details" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 2/19
  • "Apple's fight with the FBI could trigger a password arms race" IDG News Service 2/19
  • "Apple vs. the FBI: This is digital security on trial" Mashable 2/19
  • "Box's Aaron Levie Defends Apple Amid FBI Controversy" TechCrunch 2/19
  • "Apple's FBI Standoff Could Be Good Business" Investopedia 2/19
  • "The DOJ Calls Apple's Pro-Privacy Stance a 'Marketing Strategy'" Fortune 2/19
  • "Kara Swisher: Valley backing Tim Cook" CNBC Videos 2/19
  • "Tim Cook's stand and the FBI's grandstanding" Six Colors 2/19
  • "Feeble Noise Pollution" Medium 2/19
  • "Apple's showdown with the FBI was a long time coming: The San Bernardino case isn't the first time the company has refused to help the government unlock an iPhone." Macworld 2/19
  • "Law Enforcement's Case Against Apple's Encryption" Newsweek 2/19
  • "Why Apple's iPhone Battle With the Government Will Likely Be a Privacy Setback" The Huffington Post 2/19
  • "Why must Apple help the FBI? Because law enforcement is not surveillance"  The Guardian 2/19
  • "Twitter, Facebook, Woz Support Apple in Encryption Battle" PC Magazine 2/19
  • "Billionaire Mark Cuban says Apple deserves a 'standing ovation' for fighting FBI on encryption" AppleInsider 2/19
  • "Apple could lock governments out of future iPhones"  Yahoo! Finance 2/19
  • "Apple, FBI in 'PR war': Cybersecurity expert:" CNBC 2/19
  • "Clinton And Sanders Try To Take Middle Road In Encryption Battle Between Apple And FBI" BuzzFeed 2/19
  • "Positions Become Sharper in Apple Showdown" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 2/19
  • "Google and Apple, once enemies, unite thanks to the FBI" Mashable 2/19
  • "I, Cringely The FBI v. Apple isn't at all the way you think it is"  I, Cringely 2/19
  • "Why you should side with Apple, not the FBI, in the San Bernardino iPhone case: Either everyone gets security, or no one does."  Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 2/19
  • "Here's How the Government Wants to Crack Your Smartphone" Fortune 2/19
  • "What Ben Franklin Said To Tim Cook Is Wrong (and right)" PixoBebo 2/19
  • "Woz: Don't trust the government with your privacy" Cult of Mac 2/19
  • "Apple is using a straw man argument to fight the FBI" BetaNews 2/19
  • "Poll: Should Apple help the FBI unlock the San Bernardino iPhone?" BetaNews 2/19
  • "Facebook, Google, Twitter, Woz, Trump, McAfee, Snowden, and more take sides on Apple vs. the FBI" Macworld 2/19
  • "Apple/FBI fight looks destined to go all the way to the Supreme Court as more background is revealed" 9to5Mac 2/19
  • "Steve Jobs' iPhreak App That Breaks Apple's iPhone Encryption?" Forbes 2/19
  • "Apple's brand hangs in the balance of its FBI standoff"  Mashable 2/19
  • "Court of public opinion, irony, no less players in Apple's tussle with Feds" hittingthesweetspot 2/19
Apple Op/Ed
  • "Apple's iPhone: Market Share Vs. Profits" Forbes 2:49 PM
  • "Cassandra: Weakened El Niño Spells Doom for Apple -A Fortune at Stake" eXtensions 7:39 AM
  • "Why John Sculley doesn't wear an Apple Watch (and regrets booting Steve Jobs)" Cult of Mac 2/19
  • "Can Apple Solve Its Biggest iPhone Problem?" Forbes 2/19
  • "Why Samsung's chips can't beat the iPhone, and why Samsung still has to follow Apple" BGR 2/19
  • "Samsung to SCOTUS: 'The law of the smartphone cannot follow reflexively from the law of the spoon.'" ["I just don't understand why Apple takes a position on design patents that pretty much every other company in the industry disagrees with. Those who disagree with Apple can't all be habitual infringers of intellectual property rights. The final section of Samsung's petition stresses the 'enormous national importance' of the petition. This sounds to me like 'this should be reviewed, but at the very, very, very least there should be a call for views of the Solicitor General (CVSG).' Or maybe I tend to read too much between the lines."]  Foss Patents 2/19
  • "Here's what the 'i' in iPhone means" Mashable 2/19
  • "What we want to see from new Apple Watch bands" iMore 2/19
  • "Why Amazon is More Impressive Than Apple These Days" Tech.pinions 2/19
  • "The Mac Of The Future" Mac360 2/19
  • "Why Hasn't Video Calling Caught On?" TeraTalks 2/19
  • "What Customers Want In iPhone 7" Mac360 2/19
  • "Phone accessories are becoming more interesting than phones"  The Verge 2/19
Non-Apple
  • "News Publishers Need To Jump Into Bots (1/2)" Monday Note 2:50 PM
  • "Civilization's father, Sid Meier, shares 25 years of insights on his beloved series" VentureBeat 2/20
  • "Tiny, blurry pictures find the limits of computer image recognition: The human vision system has tricks up its sleeve that computers can't yet match." Ars Technica 2/20
  • "What's the dopest old laptop to install Chrome OS on? Free your mind of time and space" The Verge 2/19
  • "Is Amazon Prime worth it?" iMore 2/19
  • "You've heard of the Internet of Things, but how does it work?" Business Insider 2/19
  • "Will.i.am Thinks We're Idiots, Makes Another Smartwatch" Gizmodo 2/19
  • "Galaxy S7 Leak Delivers The First Bad News" Forbes 2/19
  • "Unpacked: Wearable Tech Ownership" Tech.pinions [Insider Content] 2/19
  • "A technological map of the future" Gigaom 2/19
Humor/Cartoons
  • "Pearls Before Swine" GoComics 8:06 AM