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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI Can't Unlock Dayton Shooter's Phone
2019-08-10
[Breitbart] The FBI is unable to access Connor Betts’s mobile phone, according to a Thursday-published report at the Hill citing "two sources."

Betts, a supporter of socialism and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), murdered nine people and wounded 27 others in a mass shooting attack in Dayton, Ohio.

It may take months or years to access data on Betts’s phone if the murderer used a PIN between six and eight digits, according to FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich. Bowdich reportedly informed House Democrats via conference call on Wednesday that the FBI "can’t unlock" Betts’s phone, adding, "We don’t know when we are going to get into the phone."

Related: Dayton shooter had an obsession with violence and mass shootings, police say
Posted by:Besoeker

#21  AG Barr sez it's time to open the back door.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2019-08-10 15:34  

#20  Surprised they didn't claim the phone took a bullet or two when the shooter was taken down and it is now unaccessible. Or that they never recovered the phone, or that he apparently erased his phone prior to his attacks. Something a bit better than 'can't unlock'.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-08-10 12:07  

#19  His wireless provider has all the log files of every one of his communications. The biggest providers respond to >100,000 such law enforcement requests annually.

This doesn't even pass the smell test.
Posted by: Lex   2019-08-10 12:06  

#18  Do. Not. Believe. It. Are they telling me there is no way, none at all, to make copies of the encrypted memory? There has to be some leeway or the end users would "brick" so many phones that the defense would be commercially unusable.
Posted by: magpie   2019-08-10 11:56  

#17  Farook phone: The documents (three news organizations sued the FBI for info on how it was done) don't reveal who the FBI hired to hack into the phone or how much it paid that vendor. The FBI labeled those files "secret" before they were released.

Makes a person really want to know what was on Connor Bett's phone.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-08-10 10:42  

#16  This is theater for the renewed push to get an official Fed encryption backdoor. Clipper chip meets mass shooter.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2019-08-10 09:38  

#15  Yes, I'd imagine these days the standing order is "If you don't write it down (enter it in the computer) you won't have to delete / explain it later..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-08-10 09:33  

#14  Notice how the term... "on the radar of law enforcement" has somehow fallen from favor ?

Just a guess, but it appears likely that the shooter was under close Law Enforcement surveillance, possibly Federal. Surveillance which could have included communications monitoring. A release of his cellie communications could also reveal time-lines as well as potential information on weapons and magazine purchases, planned events, and potential targets.

A key take-away is the title of the article itself.

Again, only a guess, but a guess that tracks with the comment made in #13. Any similarities btwn this and the subjects of the tragic Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013 are purely coincidental.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-08-10 08:46  

#13  If the feds cannot open/unlock a phone why did they smash Hillary’s?
Posted by: Airandee   2019-08-10 07:46  

#12  Mental illness, cultural and political beliefs are irrelevant. The proliferation of firearms is the real problem.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-08-10 07:43  

#11  IIRC they outsourced the last ones to the Israelis.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-08-10 06:59  

#10  Like hell they can't. More deep state bs.

On the other hand, this is STILL is Osama Obammer's FBI (Wray).
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-08-10 06:49  

#9  Call your locaĺ FBI office from a pay phone.
Tell the agent to put their iphone in a freezes for two hours.
Take it out and push the on button.
Hang up the pay phone without giving the agent your name...for good reason. :)
Posted by: Angairong Flavigum3253   2019-08-10 03:02  

#8  Quis custodiet ipsos FBI custodes?
Posted by: Lex   2019-08-10 02:35  

#7  Wonder which law enforcement agency has physical custody of the device... Any competent hacker could unlock it within minutes. Where is the phone?

Soon to be misplaced.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-08-10 02:33  

#6  Wonder which law enforcement agency has physical custody of the device... Any competent hacker could unlock it within minutes. Where is the phone?
Posted by: Lex   2019-08-10 02:31  

#5  Obviously they found something embarrassing to their masters. The months will be spent on devising the democrat public narrative to his motivations.

They could easily contract the nice folks who did Rizwan Farook's phone. It only took a $100K in 2016.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-08-10 02:29  

#4  What, did Hillary's people smash it to smithereens?
Posted by: Lex   2019-08-10 02:23  

#3  ...I am quite convinced that the Feds know perfectly well how to unlock any phone in existence - they simply prefer to keep up the appearance that they cannot.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-08-10 02:23  

#2  iPhone? Comrade Timmy to the red courtesy phone please, comrade Timmy...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-08-10 02:20  

#1  BS. Of course they can unlock it.
What nonsense is this?
Posted by: Lex   2019-08-10 02:05  

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