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Senator says FBI paid $900K for iPhone hacking tool
[ABC] 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.
That would be the December 3rd, 2015 gun and bomb attack workplace incident by Syed Farook, also known as Syed Rizwan Farook, and Tashfeen Malik on his office Christmas party. Mr. Farook was an American-born Punjabi-American, so naturally he went back to the old country for a suitable wife -- she was working on her PhD in pharmaceutical science and was connected to Lal Masjid, the notorious Red Mosque in Islamabad that in 2015 was connected to ISIS, making her just the one for him. They were known wolves connected to the extremist scene in California and on social media to Al Nusra and Al Shabaab...
The FBI considers the figure to be classified information. It 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.

An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment Friday.

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

"I was so struck when San Bernardino happened and you made overtures to allow that device to be opened, and then the FBI had to spend $900,000 to hack it open," said Feinstein, D-Calif. "And as I subsequently learned of some of the reason for it, there were good reasons to get into that device."

Comey hinted at a ballpark range last year, saying the government paid more than he would earn in his remaining seven years on the job, an amount that would have been more than $1 million. He has called the sum "worth it."
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-05-06
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