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1 month ago | 
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Thorin Klosowski |Andrew Crocker
ENCRYPTIONCornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security SettingPublished 28 February 2025In response to the U.K. demands for a backdoor, Apple has stopped offering users in the U.K. Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature in iCloud that turns on end-to-end encryption for files, backups, and more.
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1 month ago | 
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Thorin Klosowski |Andrew Crocker
ENCRYPTIONCornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security SettingPublished 27 February 2025In response to the U.K. demands for a backdoor, Apple has stopped offering users in the U.K. Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature in iCloud that turns on end-to-end encryption for files, backups, and more.
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2 months ago | 
eff.org | Thorin Klosowski |Andrew Crocker
Share It Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Copy link Today, in response to the U.K.’s demands for a backdoor, Apple has stopped offering users in the U.K. Advanced Data Protection, an optional feature in iCloud that turns on end-to-end encryption for files, backups, and more.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
eff.org | Andrew Crocker |Matthew Guariglia
Better late than never: last night a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. The landmark ruling comes in a criminal case, United States v.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
thekrakenlore.com | Andrew Crocker
THE KRAKEN LORE | HORROR FLASH FICTION“The lesson of thankfulness was best taught by those who had never been thanked at all.”Big Tom wasn’t just any turkey. The old-timers in Old Granbury would have known what he was the second they saw those eyes — yellow as a harvest moon and twice as old as sin itself. Marjorie Willets noticed it first. She stood in her kitchen window that Thanksgiving morning, hands deep in stuffing, when she saw him.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
thekrakenlore.com | Andrew Crocker
WHAT THE WALLS WHISPERED | CHAPTER 7“Some breadcrumbs feed the ducks, and some lead straight to the witch’s oven. The trick was knowing which path to follow and which to let grow cold.”This is chapter 7 of “What the Walls Whispered.” Click below for the previous chapter:Morning mist danced above the waterfall, its tendrils twisting like lost spirits seeking their way home.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
thekrakenlore.com | Andrew Crocker
The thing that used to be Charles Weisman III took his position by the rain-streaked window, the same as every morning since his death. Through the glass, he could see his withered roses drowning in the constant rain. The garden outside had gone feral months ago, but these windowsill plants — his last bastion of civilization — he could still tend. Routine brings comfort. Even to the dead. (Order. There must be order.)Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Raindrops traced paths down the glass.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
eff.org | Hannah Zhao |Thorin Klosowski |Andrew Crocker
This year, like every year, EFF sent a variety of lawyers, technologists, and activists to the summer security conferences in Las Vegas to help foster support for the security research community. While we were at DEF CON 32, security researcher Dennis Giese received a cease-and-desist letter on a Thursday afternoon for his talk scheduled just hours later for Friday morning. EFF lawyers met with Dennis almost immediately, and by Sunday, Dennis was able to give his talk.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
thekrakenlore.com | Andrew Crocker
Chapter 1 of “What the Walls Whispered.”“Some men collect broken hearts like kids collect baseball cards.”The words were the kind of thing her mother would say—had said, in fact, over and over until the eve of her wedding. At the time, Vera had dismissed it as her mother’s usual boomer cynicism, one last attempt to derail her happiness. But she didn’t realize until recently that Mom was a savant for cutting through the bullshit with a rusty blade.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
sgtreport.com | Andrew Crocker
by Andrew Crocker, Activist Post:In a major decision on Friday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.” Closely following arguments EFF has made in a number of cases, the court found that geofence warrants constitute the sort of “general, exploratory rummaging” that the drafters of the Fourth Amendment intended to outlaw.
