Cybersecurity and anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has reportedly tried to mislead reporters into believing that he had sabotaged Facebook-owned WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption. Apparently, this isn’t the first time that the self-styled libertarian gained media attention for such outlandish claims like when he told the FBI that he’ll help them hack into the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone.
In a surprising turn of events, the US Justice Department asked the court to cancel its Tuesday hearing regarding its controversial attempt to force Apple to hack into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino attackers using new software. With the temporary respite from the legal tussle, FBI cautiously hopes that the potential workaround would give them results without Apple’s help.
Apple Exec Tim Cook likened FBI’s attempt to coerce the company to create a ‘backdoor access’ to iPhone to ‘software equivalent of cancer’ and added that it is ‘bad for America’ in a recent TV interview.
Former Microsoft CEO and now philanthropist Bill Gates insist that tech companies should help the government to access private information in extraordinary circumstances and in case-to-case basis.
Trump called on supporters to stop using or buying Apple during a pre-primary town hall in South Carolina and ironically tweeted subsequent boycott message from his iPhone.
Weighing on Apple’s fight with the FBI, experts have warned of far-reaching consequences if the iPhone maker gave in to government’s hacking demands.
In a complaint made against Enrique Marquez, federal investigators state Farook left a bag containing explosives in the center. Marquez has been charged on three counts.
Investigators may charge Enrique Marquez on Thursday.
After finding undisclosed objects from the lake, federal investigators are hoping to find the hard drives missing from the terrorist couple's computers.
Authorities are coming around to accept there may have been an intelligence lapse that prevented law enforcement agencies in seeing Malik and Farook for what they were.
Investigators across US and Pakistan are working to gather details about Malik before she participated in the deadly attack that left 14 dead at the Inland Regional Center.
President Barack Obama promised more action against terrorism in his address to the nation on Sunday.
Investigators found amunition and explosives at the couple's house. Farook and his wife Malik left their six-month old infant with Farook's mother before going to the center on Wednesday.
Law enforcement agencies are investigating if Malik, who hails from Pakistan, was the brains behind the attack.
The couple was killed in a shootout with the police on Wednesday.
