Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance

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April 04, 2013 CNET Daily News
Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are "impossible to intercept," even with a warrant. Read more | Share:  Facebook's new home on Android: Join us at 10 a.m. PT today for live blog Is it the fabled Facebook phone? Or a new Facebook-integrated Android operating system? Both? Find out live with CNET at 10 a.m. PT today. Read more | Share:  Blink, Google's new Chrome browser engine, comes to life The starting code base for what will become Chrome 28 is in place, and programmers are already updating it. Blink's birth was not without labor pains, though. Read more | Share:  Best Buy chops older iPad prices as much as 30 percent Walmart and MacMall are also offering price cuts on the iPad Mini and the larger iPad models. Plus: Discounts on the first-gen Kindle Fire and Acer's Iconia Tab A200. Read more | Share:  Anonymous hacks North Korea's Twitter and Flickr accounts The "hacktivist" group also takes credit for accessing a North Korean news and information site, which is currently offline. Read more | Share:  Apple's planned 'spaceship' HQ will reportedly cost $5B The iPad maker has delayed construction on the project in order to cut $1 billion out of the budget, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. Read more | Share:  Behold an amazing 200,000-piece Lego alien city Artist Mike Doyle has created an absolutely jaw-dropping extraterrestrial Lego city called K'al Yne. Read more | Share:  01 Apple stays on top in U.S. smartphone market, study says 02 'Arrested Development' to debut on Netflix on May 26 03 Apple's iPad, 3 years in: Magical? Some beg to differ 04 All the New York Times news that's fit to print -- in haiku 05 Surging Bitcoin plunges $30 after exchange outage, hack Don't clip coupons, download apps instead The days of cutting coupons from the weekly mailer are over. New smartphone apps are making it easy to shop for deals, find local offers, and get refunds directly deposited into online accounts. Some of these apps are even adding a gaming quality to deal hunting, making the whole process less of a chore and more of a competitive sport. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports. Read more | Share:  The EPA's contentious MPG ratings CNET on Cars looks into how MPG ratings are done, and gives the 2013 Audi S7 a test drive. Watch Bridget Carey daily for a breakdown of the big stories, hot devices, new apps, and what's ahead.  Video podcast Don't miss an Update. Download the CNET Update video podcast now.   iTunes: SD | HQ | HD  RSS: SD | HQ | HD Audio podcast No need for video? No problem. Download to listen to CNET Update's audio podcast.   iTunes: MP3   RSS: MP3 01 Microsoft, Google swap April Fools' barbs 02 Google parts ways with Apple over WebKit, launches Blink 03 Next two iPhones may have been designed under Steve Jobs 04 April Fools' 2013: From Twttr to Google Nose to Nokia's microwave 05 Google's privacy czar, Alma Whitten, resigns

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