FBI Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Steve Jobs' 1991 FBI file has been released

by Steven Sande (Feb 9th, 2012)

Have a bit of time? Want to learn more about Steve Jobs' life than you were able to dredge up reading the Walter Isaacson biography? All you have to do is read the 191-page 1991 FBI background investigation of Jobs that was done when he was being considered for an appointment to the President's ...

FBI releases its first iPhone app: Child ID

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 7th, 2011)

The FBI has released it first iPhone app called Child ID. As the name suggests, Child ID works as a kind of digital passport for information about your children. With it you can store their photos along with physical identifiers such as height and weight. The app has several intended uses, the ...

No criminal charges in Pennsylvania MacBook spying probe

by Mel Martin (Aug 17th, 2010)

The Associated Press is reporting that a federal investigation into the possible misuse of webcams on Apple laptops did not find criminal intent. The investigation was at a suburban Philadelphia school district that used special software that wound up covertly snapping images of students who were ...

Did a Pennsylvania school district use iSight to iSpy?

by Mel Martin (Feb 22nd, 2010)

The FBI and lots of parents want to know if school-issued MacBooks were used to spy on students at a suburban Philadelphia school. Earlier today, a federal judge was asked to stop the school from destroying any records or logs from the 2,300 laptops that were used by high school students that ...

Khalid Shaikh, prolific app creator and former YouSendIt CEO, busted by FBI

by Mel Martin (Nov 1st, 2009)

Khalid Shaikh has been indicted by a grand jury for four counts of mail fraud. The FBI says Shaikh was involved in 4 denial of service attacks against the the firm he founded, YouSendIt, which crippled the content delivery company's servers. According to the FBI, Shaikh was one of YouSendIt's ...

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