Reply to post: Re: FBI had paid approximately $1m for the crack

Did the FBI engineer its iPhone encryption court showdown with Apple to force a precedent? Yes and no, say DoJ auditors

kierenmccarthy

Re: FBI had paid approximately $1m for the crack

Maybe.

That could have been a single payment for them to carry out a specific job - like flying to DC and demonstrating the hack.

It could have been a fee for preparing the paperwork for the court.

It could have been the fee for that single instance of Farook's phone.

$15,000 for hacking an operating system that even someone like the FBI can't get into is ridiculously low.

Kieren

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