Two weeks ago, privacy advocates across the country celebrated as the Federal Bureau of Investigation backed off its request for Apple to help gain access intoiPhone...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2016
As Apple Battled the FBI for the last two months over the agency's demands that Apple help crack its own encryption, both the tech community and law enforcement...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2016
Birding — the amateur pursuit of watching and monitoring bird populations — is a big deal. The numbers back it up.Backchannel From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2016
Soon after Devon Godfrey was shot to death in his apartment in Harlem on the evening of April 12, 2010, officers with the New York Police Department thought they...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | April 7, 2016
It's welcome news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has dropped its legal effort to force Apple to help it create a method of accessing data on a lockedSan...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 6, 2016
Nearly 20 years ago, after a chess-playing computer called Deep Blue beat the world grandmaster Garry Kasparov, I wrote an article about why humans would long remain...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 5, 2016
Concerned because you can't pry your daughter away from Minecraft? Worried that your son spends every moment obsessing over moves in the super-popular video game...CNET From ACM Opinion | April 1, 2016
In 1984, I was part of a team that was developing a receiver for a satellite-navigation system. After weeks of debugging, the blur of random digits settled on a...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2016
The United States Justice Department announced this week that it was able to unlock the iPhone used by the gunman in the San Bernardino shooting in December, and...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 30, 2016
The praise this week for Andy Grove, who died on Monday at age 79, has been wrapped up in praise for Silicon Valley, where he was a towering figure in the semiconductor...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2016
This week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) created a potentially dangerous precedent when it indicted seven Iranian hackers involved in attacks on the US financial...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2016
Silicon Valley is full of logical absolutists, people who will follow a line of argument wherever it goes, no matter what the human repercussions.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 24, 2016
After a third party went to the F.B.I. with claims of being able to unlock an iPhone, many in the security industry said they were not surprised that the thirdApple...The Nw York Times From ACM Opinion | March 23, 2016
On the eve of his company’s court date with the FBI, where it will defend its right to not weaken the security of its own devices, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 22, 2016
Every once in a while, President Obama removes his Law Professor in Chief hat and puts on his I Get Terrifying Briefings Every Day hat.Backchannel From ACM Opinion | March 18, 2016
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.The Guardian From ACM Opinion | March 17, 2016