SF News Feds Paid 'Gray Hat' Hackers, Not Israeli Firm, To Crack That iPhone Contrary to earlier reports that Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite had been the ones paid by the FBI to crack the iPhone left behind in the San Bernardino terrorism case, the successful hacking
SF News Feds Tell Local Police They're Happy To Help Unlock iPhones Well that didn't take long. Despite claiming for weeks that its efforts to break the encryption on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's work iPhone 5C was only about that one phone, now that
SF News Feds Successfully Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone, Drop Court Case Against Apple The federal government announced today that it has successfully accessed the data on San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's work iPhone 5C, and as such will drop its case demanding Apple build a backdoor
SF News FBI Hires Israeli Firm Cellebrite To Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone Though it's probably not news to the hacker world, the rest of the world is learning that the feds may not have ever really needed Apple's help to unlock and/or retrieve data
SF News Feds Can Likely Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Postpone Tomorrow's Hearing Well this certainly is interesting. According to Nate Cardozo, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the government moved to vacate tomorrow's scheduled hearing in the ongoing Apple versus the FBI encryption
SF News Key Apple Engineers Suggest They'll Quit If Feds Force Them To Unlock iPhone The FBI may face a new hurdle in their eager attempt to get around Apple's encryption technology and unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists, and that would be Apple's
SF News Judge Says 'Nope' To Gag Order In City Hall Corruption Case A five-year undercover FBI probe into corruption at City Hall heretofore shrouded in secrecy may no longer be kept so quiet. While the work of the District Attorney's office and the FBI's San
SF News Apple Doesn't Need To Unlock Phones For Government, Says Federal Judge The most prominent case regarding a government order for Apple, Inc. is the one you've no doubt been following: The one in which the FBI is compelling the company to unlock an iPhone
SF News Second Pro-Apple Rally Planned For Tonight In Downtown SF Growing group of folks at the SF Apple Store. Showing support of Apple's decision to protect encryption for users. pic.twitter.com/UKIwf5qYPK— Doctor Popular (@DocPop) February 18, 2016 Less than a week
SF News Rally Supporting Apple's Decision To Fight FBI iPhone Hacking Request Planned For Tonight A group supporting Apple's decision to fight a FBI demand that the company create a custom operating system allowing the government agency access to data on an otherwise locked iPhone plans to rally
SF News DA Teams Up With FBI On Secretive Political Corruption Task Force Remember how an FBI agent posed undercover as an Atlanta businessman and met with former San Francisco Human Rights Commission staffer Zula Jones and ex-Human Rights Commissioner Nazly Mohajer, who promised him meetings
SF News Ryan Chamberlain Pleads Guilty To Deadly Toxin Charge, May Get 10 Years Former SF political consultant and accused potential domestic terrorist Ryan Chamberlain has, as was expected last week, taken a plea deal in a case dating back to the spring of 2014 in which
SF News As Trial Was Set To Begin, Alleged Potential Domestic Terrorist Ryan Chamberlain May Take Plea Deal In the spring of 2014, former local political consultant and onetime Gavin Newsom campaigner Ryan Chamberlain appeared to have spiraled into some kind of psychological abyss. Some forays into the deep web led
SF News Thefts Of BART Cop Uniform, Gear Just Put Our Super Bowl Paranoia Into The Red Zone The FBI has certainly put us on high Super Bowl alert, with warnings of terrorists risks including the actions of "self-radicalized individuals" and "attacks on soft targets like subways." And now that alert
SF News [Update] Three Local Politicos, Including Keith Jackson, Indicted On Corruption Charges The District Attorney's Office made it known this morning that DA George Gascón would hold a 1:30 p.m. press conference today to announce corruption charges against an as-of-yet unnamed person or
SF News Shrimp Boy's Defense Attorney Tony Serra Wants To Get Mayor Lee On Witness Stand What's sure to be the colorful trial of Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow kicked off Monday with opening arguments, and already there is talk of mafia-style hits and steak dinners with an FBI agent
SF News Man Accused Of Using Twitter To Manipulate Stock Prices A Scottish man is in trouble today, having been indicted yesterday by a San Francisco jury on charges of using Twitter to manipulate stock prices. Two companies were targeted in the 2013 scheme,
SF News As Racketeering Case Gains Murder Charge, Shrimp Boy Still Asserts Innocence It was 2006 when the Chron gracefully danced around Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow's role in the death of Chinese community leader Allen Leung. Nearly a decade later, what many have since implied is
SF News FBI Shames Jowls Of SF Bank Robber I've written about a lot of bank heists over the years, and if I had one piece of advice for aspiring robbers, it's this: Make sure there is absolutely nothing remarkable about your
SF News Outer Sunset Photographer Busted For Child Porn, Tourist-Area Upskirts The San Francisco Police Department is asking anyone who might have had contact with an Outer Sunset photographer to come forward after they say they discovered thousands of images and videos depicting children
SF News Veteran SFPD Officer Goes Down For Accepting Bribes From Taxi Drivers A 36-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department could go to jail for as long as five years, after a jury agreed that he'd pulled in at least $25,000 in bribes
SF News Feds Bust Pot Smuggling Ring Involving Oakland Airport Baggage Handlers A trio of baggage handlers at Oakland Airport have been charged with conspiracy to distribute, and possession with intent to distribute, 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. As the AP reports, the three
SF News FBI Uses Facebook Messages To Nab Alleged Meth-Smuggling TSA Agents At SFO Two TSA screeners working at SFO were allegedly involved in a plot involving a third individual to smuggle multiple pounds of methamphetamine through security checkpoints in carry-on luggage. As the Examiner reports, all
SF News SFPD And Federal Agents May Be Violating Local Civil Liberties Law In Terrorism 'Interviews' A 2012 law passed in San Francisco to protect the civil liberties of residents prohibits participation by San Francisco police in federal investigations as part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. However, as
Arts & Entertainment New Doc Suggests The Silk Road Case Could Set Lasting Precedent For Fourth Amendment The federal prosecution of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged deep-web black marketeer known as Dread Pirate Roberts of The Silk Road, may have some major flaws when it comes to how the FBI built
