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It seems like Tim Cook should pursue a contract with Cellebrite to help Apple make their iPhones more secure. Make it a $2 million USD contract and drop the FBI as customer.

Sometimes I want to believe that the FBI is working for the American people, but then I read stories about how the FBI conspired with local police to hide from the American people the existence of Stingrays and their widespread use without a valid search warrant (not possible with a Stingray).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/secrecy-around-police-surveillance-equipment-proves-a-cases-undoing/2015/02/22/ce72308a-b7ac-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html?tid=a_inl

The evil and corrupt FBI exists for itself, not for the American people. They deliberately violate the 4th Amendment of the Constitution and their oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" The FBI fits the definition of a domestic enemy of the United States.  Stingrays, which act as cell towers and suck data from all mobile phones nearby cannot be applied to targeted searches. It casts a wide net of data collection. If you are unlucky, your data will be sucked in with criminals. NSA/FBI got caught red handed perverting the patriot act to collect everyone's phone metadata under the 215 program of the NSA and NSA/DNI officials kept it secret even to the point of lying to Congress under oath. Without Snowden, you and I and 85% of Congress would have been ignorant of the mass domestic spying program. I distrust any activity by the FBI. Congress should pull the financial plug of the FBI. Let them run out money and whither away.

well it seems like the FBI is finally building some capabilities that we come to expect from the FBI. This is a good thing. Harassing Apple was a boneheaded move.

Heheh, next tme the FBI should check YouTube first. There's got to be a video that explains what the FBI wants to do. 

curtis hannah said:

Interesting, there seems to have been more toward Apple then Google, especially in the North East.

Apple is on a different level, a different league with its security scheme. I can see why the Govt. struggles to access data from an iPhone compared to an Android phone.