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In ergonomic chairs bearing their university's colors, students sat wide-eyed and eager on graduation day. Partly because someone at the end of the se

Zion Harvey, who was the first child to get a double hand transplant, can now do many of the activities he once could not, including throwing a football, writing with a pencil and holding a fork.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Aug 23, 2016

Waking up on Sunday morning in Queens apartment, I sat in bed for two hours looking at the dashed off photos and shaky iPhone footage of flooding in Ellicott

The recent iPhone encryption battle has left privacy rights proponents nationwide up in arms over the prospect of the government freely extracting citizens'

Who won Apple's fight with the FBI?

Should the FBI tell Apple how it hacked into the iPhone of a San Bernardino terrorist, or leave the company to find its own security holes?

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University said Monday they have found a flaw in the way Apple encrypts information sent over iMessage — the ones that show up blue when they arrive in an iPhone users' messaging app.

By Ian Duncan

Mar 21, 2016

If you haven't decided who's right and who's wrong in the legal battle between Apple and the FBI over access to an iPhone used by one of the killers in the San Bernardino shooting, give this episode a listen.

By Dan Rodricks

Mar 3, 2016

As someone who works in a digital crime lab for law enforcement, I can attest: There are no means to get around a fully encrypted iPhone, other than with the passcode. A forensic examination can obtain limited data from other methods (iCloud backups, etc.), but this information is very limited compared to what is present on the phone itself, and Apple is rumored to be moving to block access to even these methods in the name of privacy. I agree that privacy is important to maintain, but I also

Baltimore County police in the Franklin precinct recently recorded the following reported incidents, among others, in the Owings Mills and greater Reisterstown communities.

Sayed Farook, one of the killers in the San Bernardino shootout last December, had an iPhone, and FBI investigators want the information he had stored on it. One week ago, the FBI obtained a court order requiring Apple to help them break into his phone. The next day, Apple said that the FBI wanted them to build an entirely new version of its operating system. Apple CEO Tim Cook argued that complying with the FBI's request would "undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government means to

Should Apple stop resisting a court order to help the FBI "unlock" an iPhone belonging to the attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif.?

A native app featuring The Baltimore Sun's Orioles coverage.

About the Apple Watch extension for The Baltimore Sun News Reader app.

There is a new radio station here in town called the Bloomberg Radio, and you can get it on a radio via Frequency Modulation at 99.1.

North Baltimore Crime Log

North Baltimore Crime Log

North Baltimore Crime Log

Two women on Loyola University Maryland campus robbed of iPhones by several assailants, who implied they had guns. Two suspects arrested, one of them a juvenile.

Cash stolen from Rocket to Venus restaurant. Entry gained through rear door.

Crime Log for Baltimore Messenger, covering North Baltimore

Encrypting everything to the point where government, backed by a court order, can't get the manufacturer/seller of a smartphone or tablet to aid in its decryption — as the information technology purists and citizens concerned about government overreach desire — is not the solution. Such actions passively enable criminals, adversary nations and terrorists.