Outside the Beltway

Anticompetitive practices in one of the most competitive of markets.

Apple’s iMessages and teen chic.

A massive sting operation has been revealed.

Lock them up.

Overnight, we moved to content encryption. Here’s what that means for you.

A decryption device called GrayKey is being used by all manner of government agencies.

Much of Atlanta city government has been forced to rely on pen and paper this week thanks to a Ransomware attack.

Yes, Colin Powell used private email too. No, it’s not the same thing. No, it’s not because he was a Republican.

A Federal Judge in New York has denied an F.B.I. request to force Apple to extract data from iPhones involved in a Federal drug case.

Apple is resisting a Federal Court order that it assist the F.B.I. in decryption of the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

The attack in San Bernardino has seemingly left the Administration’s anti-terror strategy in disarray, so the President is addressing the nation tonight to say, well, something I guess.

Hillary Clinton addressed the week-long email controversy, but her explanations only raised new questions.

The U.S. Government has formally charged North Korea with responsibility for the hacking attack on Sony. How to respond to that attack is a more complicated question.

Law enforcement remains unhappy about the recent changes that will make it harder to break into a locked smartphone.

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies are pushing back against Apple and Google’s efforts to provide greater privacy to users.. They’re wrong.

A recent change by Apple is good news for advocates of privacy and civil liberties in the Internet Age.

Another area where the law has yet to catch up to technology.

The “paper of record” joins the call for some kind of deal with Edward Snowden.

Even if it were functioning properly the Federal Health Care Exchange website would still have problems.

New developments in a still very new area of the law.

Meet Flame. A cyber threat that makes Stuxnet seem like child’s play.

An important vindication of the right against self-incrimination.

A Federal Judge deals with the clash between individual rights, law enforcement, and technology.

Can the government force a criminal defendant to reveal a computer password? A Federal case in Denver is dealing with that question right now.

A smoking gun?

The CIA has declassified the last six documents from the World War One era.

If the Obama Administration gets it’s way, your secure Internet communications won’t really be all that secure.