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    V@noMatt Novak
    5/08/17 8:38am

    Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if that company that helped FBI was a shell company from Apple...After all they wouldn’t loose opportunity easy earn almost $1m and still keep their face with the pubic opinion about their user’s privacy...

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      dpeters11V@no
      5/08/17 8:46am

      It was Cellebrite, an Israeli company that is owned by Japan’s Sun Corporation, who brought us Uncle Fester’s Quest.

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      Just Some GuyV@no
      5/08/17 8:47am

      It wouldn’t surprise you that a $700billion dollar company would risk it all for a $0.9million payday?

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    TalkamataMatt Novak
    5/08/17 9:31am

    You mean it cost the American taxpayers 900,000 to unlock the phone

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      lurkerbynatureTalkamata
      5/08/17 10:40am

      I’m guessing the court costs were the real expense.

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    Publius in ExtremisMatt Novak
    5/08/17 9:41am

    And they’ll keep telling us it was of paramount importance that they were able to get into this phone, without ever actually telling us if they got anything important or useful. Better to keep you scared than let you have privacy!

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      lurkerbynaturePublius in Extremis
      5/08/17 10:39am

      This phone . . . that they only couldn’t get into easily because of a series of their own and local San Bernadino government’s fuckups.

      IIRC, San Bernardino county had MDM software on the iPhones, but it hadn’t been configured properly or activated. Also, the FBI reset the iCloud password making Apple’s recommended workaround impossible.

      Comey decided to try the case in the court of public opinion because terrorists are scary and brought in Cellebrite when public opinion wasn’t going his way.

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      Publius in Extremislurkerbynature
      5/08/17 10:46am

      Yep, exactly. After they locked themselves out of the phone, either because of incompetence or on purpose, they decided to use this as a test case. Thankfully both Apple and the majority of public opinion stood their ground and told them to get bent.

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    pat34usMatt Novak
    5/08/17 12:17pm

    Why does this guy still have a job? He openly admitted that he intentionally effected the election and that he would do it again.

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      Blown2K2S2Kpat34us
      5/08/17 7:20pm

      Affected.

      She was under a legitimate criminal investigation.

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      pat34usBlown2K2S2K
      5/08/17 8:17pm

      Which changes things how?

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    lurkerbynatureMatt Novak
    5/08/17 10:28am

    $900,000 sounds a lot cheaper than the cost of Apple developing skeleton key code.

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    Prionace GlaucaMatt Novak
    5/08/17 12:53pm

    I would hope that Apple would up their encryption game; given that a company was able to hack one of their phones.

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    HandsMatt Novak
    5/08/17 1:10pm

    I wonder if Feinstein is mildly nauseous at having revealed that

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    bnceoMatt Novak
    5/09/17 9:09am

    So are you saying that Feinstein disclosed classified information?

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    send_in_the_dronesMatt Novak
    5/08/17 8:29am

    The FBI had to be seen to do something, anything, even though it is pretty clear that the perpetrators were careful and the phones were only locked because the FBI and employer acted to lock them. This latter condition suggests the FBI believed they had no information and wanted to crow-bar Apple into providing a hack by making sure the phone was locked.

    This cost only works on the less-protected phones. The newer iPhones are apparently unassailable without techniques that risk destroying the silicon chips. Unless someone built a back-door that Apple doesn’t know about.

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