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FBI Director James Comey has hinted that the FBI paid more than $1 million to break into the locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers.
At an Aspen Security Forum event in London on Thursday, Comey said the FBI had paid an unidentified third-party more money than he'll earn in his remaining seven years as FBI director.
He did not reveal the precise amount.
FBI head suggests agency paid more than $1M to access iPhone
Taxpayer money...wasted once again!
They wanted into that iPhone, this seems to be the price to pay to have someone else do it for them.
FBI Director James Comey has hinted that the FBI paid more than $1 million to break into the locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers.
At an Aspen Security Forum event in London on Thursday, Comey said the FBI had paid an unidentified third-party more money than he'll earn in his remaining seven years as FBI director.
He did not reveal the precise amount.
FBI head suggests agency paid more than $1M to access iPhone
Taxpayer money...wasted once again!
Unless it becomes known and then the phones will not be worth the plastic it took to make it. People seem to forget that the majority of Americans do not want the government to simply be able to hack their phone any time They feel it is in Their best interests.Maybe not wasted if they also got to know how it was done. Then, well they paid a million for a very useful crime fighting tool.
They wanted into that iPhone, this seems to be the price to pay to have someone else do it for them.
you want the Government to have access to your and everyone else's I-phones? If so that does not sound very Conservative.
They wanted into that iPhone, this seems to be the price to pay to have someone else do it for them.
I think what they really wanted was a method to remotely hack into people's iphones. After all, the FBI were demanding that APPLE provide remote access programs even though the FBI already had the physical phone. It was a shady request that implies there true intentions.
Our government is more concerned about spying on American citizens than stopping terrorists.
Actually I agree,Actually that sounds very conservative. When we get down to it and look at the real conservative agenda more times than not they are much more in favor of 'Big Brother' looking in our phones, keeping tabs of what goes on in our bedrooms, and the overreach of police power and police state tactics than libs are.
But again, that's just me.
I think what they really wanted was a method to remotely hack into people's iphones. After all, the FBI were demanding that APPLE provide remote access programs even though the FBI already had the physical phone. It was a shady request that implies there true intentions.
Our government is more concerned about spying on American citizens than stopping terrorists.
I agree. I believe this was more about setting a precedence than this actual phone. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if it was Apple that actually did it behind closed doors.
How was it wasted, they got in and some hacker did it for them, probably an ex-apple software engineer or a wiz kid.
Are you saying that you want the Government to have access to your and everyone else's I-phones? If so that does not sound very Conservative.
Unless it becomes known and then the phones will not be worth the plastic it took to make it. People seem to forget that the majority of Americans do not want the government to simply be able to hack their phone any time They feel it is in Their best interests.
Actually that sounds very conservative. When we get down to it and look at the real conservative agenda more times than not they are much more in favor of 'Big Brother' looking in our phones, keeping tabs of what goes on in our bedrooms, and the overreach of police power and police state tactics than libs are.
But again, that's just me.
I agree. I believe this was more about setting a precedence than this actual phone. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if it was Apple that actually did it behind closed doors.
Except that in reality any of those folks with more than two brain cells who own those devices know behind the comfortable illusions that's already the case.
Meanwhile Russian Hackers are taking over people's computers and holding their information from ransom... But let's pretend as if the FBI getting into a criminal's phone is THE BAD thing.
Actually it was not the case. If it become true I phone sales will drop and specific apps will no longer be popular. Than again idiots post all kinds of personal data on the internet already so who knows.
eavesdropped yes, hacked not so easy, I have security apps running on mine and I do not use it as much as a computer as many do, that is why I have a laptop with a screen big enough to actually see stuff, along with even more security. I have worked years in the telecom industry writing technical manuals, know darn well what is possible and not. The government is not nearly as capable as you seem to believe, if they were they would not have had to hire an outside hacker to do it for them.People have their comfortable illusions and they will go to any extent to keep them. If you really, truly believe your phone can't be eavesdropped upon or hacked, the fantasy has gone over to outright delusion.
I'm more worried about the $3-$4 trillion we wasted in Iraq. But that's just me.
eavesdropped yes, hacked not so easy, I have security apps running on mine and I do not use it as much as a computer as many do, that is why I have a laptop with a screen big enough to actually see stuff, along with even more security. I have worked years in the telecom industry writing technical manuals, know darn well what is possible and not. The government is not nearly as capable as you seem to believe, if they were they would not have had to hire an outside hacker to do it for them.
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