<story><title>FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/comey-fbi-paid-more-than-1-million-to-hack-san-bernardino-iphone-1461266641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isleyaardvark</author><text>&amp;gt; was not “scalable.”&lt;p&gt;This is the same James Comey that said they just were just asking Apple for access to just that one phone.</text></item><item><author>oneloop</author><text>Same article on the FT:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;cms&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;0&amp;#x2F;af23e3ea-07f1-11e6-b6d3-746f8e9cdd33.html#axzz46UpvC84n&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;cms&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;0&amp;#x2F;af23e3ea-07f1-11e6-b6d3-746f8e9cdd...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;James Comey, director of the FBI, said on Thursday that the cost was “worth it”, but added that an accommodation needed to be made with Apple and other technology companies in the future, as paying outside technologists to find ways to access highly-encrypted messages on phones used by terrorist suspects was not “scalable.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>intrasight</author><text>Indeed. Americans need to wake up to the fact that these spooks simply cannot be trusted. The very concept of trust is alien to their culture. Would be nice of we could count on congress to provide adequate oversight.</text></comment>
<story><title>FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/comey-fbi-paid-more-than-1-million-to-hack-san-bernardino-iphone-1461266641</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isleyaardvark</author><text>&amp;gt; was not “scalable.”&lt;p&gt;This is the same James Comey that said they just were just asking Apple for access to just that one phone.</text></item><item><author>oneloop</author><text>Same article on the FT:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;cms&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;0&amp;#x2F;af23e3ea-07f1-11e6-b6d3-746f8e9cdd33.html#axzz46UpvC84n&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ft.com&amp;#x2F;cms&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;0&amp;#x2F;af23e3ea-07f1-11e6-b6d3-746f8e9cdd...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;James Comey, director of the FBI, said on Thursday that the cost was “worth it”, but added that an accommodation needed to be made with Apple and other technology companies in the future, as paying outside technologists to find ways to access highly-encrypted messages on phones used by terrorist suspects was not “scalable.”</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>Just think of how many lives were saved by the data they got off that phone. Oh wait...</text></comment>