Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by n1 on Sunday May 07 2017, @03:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the cheap-at-twice-the-price dept.

Here's an extra story related to FBI Director Comey's questioning on Wednesday. It's a piece of "classified information":

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees the FBI, said publicly this week that the government paid $900,000 to break into the locked iPhone of a gunman in the San Bernardino, California, shootings, even though the FBI considers the figure to be classified information.

The FBI also has protected the identity of the vendor it paid to do the work. Both pieces of information are the subject of a federal lawsuit by The Associated Press and other news organizations that have sued to force the FBI to reveal them.

California's Feinstein cited the amount while questioning FBI Director James Comey at a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing Wednesday.

Related: FBI vs. Apple Encryption Fight Continues
Seems Like Everyone has an Opinion About Apple vs. the FBI
Washington Post: The FBI Paid "Gray Hat(s)", Not Cellebrite, for iPhone Unlock
FBI Can't Say How It Hacked IPhone 5C
Researcher Bypasses iPhone 5c Security With NAND Mirroring


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:35PM

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Sunday May 07 2017, @05:35PM (#505920)

    And about the size of government
    And about the Constitution
    And about the rights of free citizens
    etc., etc.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2