quinney

The FBI should be protecting Americans from people who develop hacks that compromise security, not subsidizing them.

auj said:

So, let me guess- the FBI doesn't share information with the DOJ.  I am shocked.
I thought our government supported it's various branches. 
My my, just like back in the Nixon days.
No back doors!

Bad guess.  The FBI is part of the DOJ.

Whether or not the information is useful is significant for the public relations battle the FBI is waging, but I think it is irrelevant with regard to the legal issues.  I would prefer that people would not fixate on the usefulness.

smalm said:

I'm not sure why anybody thinks Tesla can make a profit with a $35000 car when they don't know how to do it with a $75000 car…

Probably because they have made the effort to understand what Tesla is doing.  Tesla's margin on the Model S is about 25%.  Their bottom line is negative,
not because they are losing money on the cars they sell, but because they are building out a worldwide network of charging stations, building an enormous
battery factory, adding hundreds of sales galleries and service centers, and designing and building new car models and the assembly lines to produce them.
People frequently opine that Tesla is burning money.  When you burn money you are left with nothing but a pile of ashes.  The money Tesla is spending is
leaving them with tremendously valuable assets, which they are already using to good advantage.  Traditional car makers/dealers trivialize what Tesla is doing
at their own peril.

As a U.S. taxpayer, I would like to know how much the FBI paid the outside entity to access the data on the phone.  For people living places where law enforcement agencies have dozens of phones they want accessed, it would be nice to know what the costs and benefits are to using this technique repeatedly.