Yep, U.S. and Israel. It's screwed up. And after all the money we've given them, they won't do anything about ISIS. Heck, Turkey most likely funds them.
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FBI Paid Upwards of $1.3 Million to Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone
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Seriously, 8 years down the road and we still got the "Obama is a Muslim" thing going.
What a waste of tax money!!
I dont believe him anyways. There was a public contract document put out that stated they paid around $15K. If they truly paid $1.3million to break into this phone, they're dumber than I already thought they were....which is probably impossible.
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Unless you're in Congress....then you get REALLY rich. Insider trading is legal for Congress, and they spend their entire time in office working for campaign contributions which they are allowed to keep when they retire.
I dont believe him anyways. There was a public contract document put out that stated they paid around $15K. If they truly paid $1.3million to break into this phone, they're dumber than I already thought they were....which is probably impossible.
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Unless you're in Congress....then you get REALLY rich. Insider trading is legal for Congress, and they spend their entire time in office working for campaign contributions which they are allowed to keep when they retire.
What I said was: If they found the phone of the abductor, and you tried to ask me whether I change my opinion since my daughter is abducted, I would smack you so hard you would never dare asking a question again. That is totally independent on what I would do afterwards. But anyone who would ask me about politics in that situation would get smacked.
In the circumstances of _this_ case, it was absolutely clear that there wouldn't be any evidence found on that phone. So yes, instead of wasting $1.3 million on opening a phone with no evidence, the police could spend that money to send a thousand police officers out to look for her.
And please tell me how you suppose the police would find the phone but not the abductor. That's the big problem with all the "think of the children" idiots. All the scenarios they come up with _don't actually work_. There's not a single child abduction case where the abductor left a locked phone behind.
I am simply saying, the whole role, and what anyone would expect is for the police/authorities to follow any leads, inspect any piece of evidence in the hope of finding clues etc that would help with the investigation, whatever that may be.
Be that getting access to a address, some banking/financial details, CCTV Footage, Interviews with people who knew the suspect, and data help on their Computer or Phone.
It strikes me as stupid to say AFTER the event, oh well we knew there was nothing on there, after nothing was found.
Well perhaps there was no person being held at that address either, but it does not mean you don't go and search the place if there is any chance their might be.
All very well being smug after the event.
Can you imagine the uproar if someone got away with something, or someone died due to something the police did not feel was worth following up or looking at.
It's their duty, and we would expect them to follow up and get access to anything that may help with a crime.
As I said before, it's so easy to appear smug and wise AFTER the event, and for something that's not affecting you.
As someone who works in InfoSec, I can tell you that when I saw that $15k figure I almost died from laughing. And the $1mil is a bargain compared to what some exploits would fetch...
Yeah, I'm good with bonuses for Medal of Honor recipients, but a bonus for everyone else in Government jobs is BS, unless you want to have a method for deduction a portion of their salary for being utterly useless, like our Senate, and most of this bureaucratic buffoonery.
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Do you know how "Organized Crime" controls spending and budgeting?
Take out the "Organized" part and you have our government.
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Lying does?
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You don't really know how government spending works, do you?
The House spends the money, don't see many Hip Hop artists hanging out with Paul Ryan.
Blame your beloved Apple, who could have helped for free.
Apparently they don't even understand their own designs, so maybe it wouldn't have mattered. They have trouble fixing even basic iOS bugs.
It's good to know that you have no idea what this entire incident was about.
And again.
Stupid stuff - like seeing what's on the smartphone of a mass murderer? Where there could be incriminating info that would help catch other terrorists in their network? Or info about plans of another attack that could prevent another tragedy?
Stupid stuff like that?
Yeah, investigating crimes is overrated. Don't look into a mass killer's smartphone because it's his private data protected by the Constitution? Just clean up the mess and leave things be?
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When you're obsessed about all things iPhone and Apple it's easy to lose sight of the most basic facts - a radical Islamic terrorist killed many people and the FBI wants to see what happened to be on his smartphone. And all you guys are fighting that and ridiculously extending that to mean the FBI is going to spy on millions of your precious iPhones.
I'd say *you* don't have any idea about the basics of this entire incident.
Which was the tired comeback of - "you don't agree with my point of view, therefore you 'don't-know-what-you're-talking-about'" Dumbest comeback in the book.
But hey, you're right. Search me at the airport, search my house, car, and home, but hey dude - don't you DARE touch my phone! That's private data there!
Seems like you really don't grasp the gravitas of the issue at hand. So I think we're done here.
So instead of enlightening us all as to what the 'gravitas' is, you punt with the "you have no clue" retort that adds absolutely ZERO value to any conversation.
I'll give you this, you didn't resort to the "your an idiot", which fits in the same class of response - make a judgement without offering anything.
You'd make a great president.
I don't think you're an idiot, I just think there is more at stake than you realize.
Do you honestly think this is a realistic scenario? Ha!
Abductor's have victim. Where did the phone come from?
Let's be a tad realistic with these fantastical scenarios. Thx.
He doesn't have to enlighten "us all": we all get it except for you, it seems. It's obvious from the aggressive way you come at \-v-/ that you're looking for a fight, not discourse, and you seem to ignore that your original post "adds absolutely ZERO value to any conversation" as it's the same tired blame and attack that the uninformed have used since day one. Please go find a fight elsewhere.
Yeah....looking back I should have scoffed at that initial figure too....especially given the extremely high profile of the events.
Truth over time is pop culture.
Oh, and by the way, Obama has been amongst our least effective US Presidents. So much potential lost.
