iPhone

  • Exceptional Access: How a “Back Door” Could Create Large-Scale Security Threats

    Exceptional Access: How a “Back Door” Could Create Large-Scale Security Threats

    On February 16, 2016, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, issued a letter to customers in which he declared his opposition to a federal court order requiring the company to help the FBI “unlock” an iPhone used by one of the two gunmen in the San Bernardino, California, mass shooting in…

  • Droning to Win: How the UAV Wars Began

    Droning to Win: How the UAV Wars Began

    Computer scientists investigate Unmanned Aerial Vehicle vulnerability to third-party hacking, showing that commercial drone use is likely to be heavily regulated.

  • iFlating the U.S. Trade Deficit with China

    iFlating the U.S. Trade Deficit with China

    While designed and marketed in Cupertino, California, the iPhone is estimated to have contributed $1.9 billion to the U.S. trade deficit with China in 2009. This is the finding of Yuqing Xing and Neal Detert, two economists with the Asian Development Bank Institute.