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2017-05-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Senator says FBI paid $900K for iPhone hacking tool

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-06 08:53|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top
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#1 Paul Combetta at Platte River Networks ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-06 08:57|| 2017-05-06 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 the government paid $900,000 to break into the locked iPhone of a gunman in the San Bernardino, California, shootings.

The government didn't have an in-house capability?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-05-06 09:54|| 2017-05-06 09:54|| Front Page Top

#3 The government didn't have an in-house capability?
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-05-06 09:54

Well, look at it this way - if the Gummint was working on one and it ever got out, that would be a sh!tstorm of near-Biblical proportions. The Bureau, on the other hand, probably thought like this: They knew perfectly well that there were tools out there to do whatever they needed, when they needed them they could buy them or contract them, and then they could stand up and say "We didn't have one when we needed it, so now we're going to keep hold of this."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-05-06 10:13|| 2017-05-06 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah. If in-house capability is so special, whyn't the FBI have its own firearms factory?

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-05-06 10:15|| 2017-05-06 10:15|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 is more correct. They had to go through alot to get this phone un-locked. Even went to Congress.

They went about it all the wrong way.

Posted by newc 2017-05-06 11:14|| 2017-05-06 11:14|| Front Page Top

#6 They went about it all the wrong way. What was the right way?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-05-06 12:06|| 2017-05-06 12:06|| Front Page Top

#7 What was the right way?

When Apple revealed their corporate entity was bigger than Patriotic America, or that they didn't know how to unlock the device either, it became time for extraordinary measures.

We found the G. had no balls to force Apple, but they had a fat checkbook. The apparent solution is proprietary, the Feds can now crack Apple HDWR encryption (and perhaps others), covert international partners may now also have the capability and the FBI now has a math skunkworks outside the normal government channels that is free from oversight inspection and exposure(for a while).

I think they did pretty good. I wonder that Apple as an commercial entity shouldn't be considered a foreign sympathizer subject to audit and tariffs.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-06 13:32|| 2017-05-06 13:32|| Front Page Top

#8 I am losing confidence in the FBI. If they can't investigate the NSA enough to appropriate NSA's iPhone hacking tools then they have no insight at all into what is really going on.

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