All good points. For some reason the FBI/CIA seem like private sector to me. I do not really have an answer why, but they do.
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FBI Paid Upwards of $1.3 Million to Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone
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All good points. For some reason the FBI/CIA seem like private sector to me. I do not really have an answer why, but they do.
Apple is in a reluctant position right now: their phones need to be secure to keep the trust of their users, but they can't really boast about it because that just goads the FBI and "patriotism" hawks who will bring out the victims of terrorism to tug at people's heartstrings again.
Bragging about what the FBI can't do is not the way to fight this. Educating people about the broader issues and why this is a bad thing, IS the way to fight.
I'm not surprised unfortunately, I just saw they we spent between 500k and 1.5 mil for a random number generator
"FBI paid..."
False. FBI doesn't pay anything. Taxpayers paid for it.
Good job voters. You thought you won huh.
False. FBI doesn't pay anything. Taxpayers paid for it.
Good job voters. You thought you won huh.
Sure the President only gets a $400k salary but you know darn well that most if not all presidents retire with net worth in the tens of millions. Plus they get crazy perks TILL THEY DIE. And guys like Clinton get paid $50k for a 1 hour appearence. Plus they get immortalized in the history books.
By the way Bill/Hillary Clinton's net worth is $110 million.
George W Bush is worth $20 million
George HW Bush is worth $25 million
But the FBI director? He gets none of this and is in a super dangerous job with far less protection than the president.
Probably because a lot of crap they do has little oversight... if any.
What a waste of our tax dollars. I think their budget needs to be reviewed.
I'm sure the hacker didn't do badly, but I think Comey was talking about fees (and maybe other costs, such as the time spent by their own IT people) paid to multiple hackers. Only one of the those investments paid off with an unlocked phone.
It's like Veruca Salt's father paying hundreds of workers to open chocolate bars in order to find a golden ticket. Only one of them was successful. He COMPLETELY wasted his money on the rest of them. He should have just hired ONE person (the successful one) and had that person open ONE chocolate bar (the one with the ticket).
I don't understand the people who buy multiple lottery tickets. All you have to do is buy one, with the right numbers on it, and you turn your one dollar into millions. Why doesn't everyone see this?
What? Super dangerous job? What do you think the FBI Director does?
What does your salary have to do with this, Comey? This guy's head is permanently up his ass.
Politicians have always had the same calculus before them - when is spending justified, when is it not? People want the government to spend on things they care about, they want the government to not spend on things they don't care about. Winning candidates tend to be those who best gauge the public's toleration/desires in that regard.
In the case of public safety, the public tends to be generous - defense/military spending, police and fire protection, etc. When we're scared, we want protection and are willing to pay. When large, noisy factions are demanding answers, spending money to provide those answers is politic. It's only when those efforts seem to go to gross excess that people start complaining about the cost. Is $1.5 million "gross excess?" I'm not sure - I don't have the political skills to judge.
It's not like there's no warning about the subject matter, nor is anyone holding an arbalest to your noggin to force you to read. Probably.
Doesn't the government see hackers as a form of terrorism, so they negotiated with terrorists.
For $0.3m less NASA would have developed a ballpen that works in zero gravity!
Except a private company developed the pen and sold it to NASA.
(The Russians just used pencils, but the graphite dust from sharpening them floated around in air currents and got into electronics.)
It was a work phone, nothing was on it, it was not worth it! I would have told them nothing was on it for a quarter of that!
All law enforcement is dangerous. But especially the head of the FBI who is the lead man against Mafia, drug cartels, and other criminal elements in the USA. When you are responsible for taking down some of the most powerful and violent criminals you are a target.
Given the drawn out po-faced dog and pony show and how Apple has openly helped China in the past and everything else, a lot more of OUR tax dollars could have been spared if Apple didn't play their game to begin with. Simple. (I've posted numerous links before, the issue is fresh and still topical enough to be found, and people half-pointed out I repeated posting links, so this is why people tend to re-post links and statements. To keep the context.)
Do you guys not know that every dollar in circulation is owed by the states in debt to the Feds? They own and print the money and they have the ability to create money out of thin air.
For $0.3m less NASA would have developed a ballpen that works in zero gravity!
I hope you know that's a myth, right?
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Yeah. But since the Director only makes $183K, maybe they should spend the money instead on raises for their employees. But thanks to Congress and the voters who put them their, they can't.
so they waste it on outside contractors, instead.