Tashfeen Malik (left) and Syed Farook are pictured passing through Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in this July 27, 2014, handout photo obtained by Reuters on Dec. 8, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS/U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS
L.A. Times: FBI can't figure out how to unlock encrypted phone in San Bernardino investigation
FBI technicians have been unable to unlock encrypted data on a cellphone that belonged to the terrorist couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino on Dec. 2, the FBI director said Tuesday.
The failure, the second such case in recent months, has left investigators in the dark about at least some of the married couple's communications before they were killed in a shootout with police.
“We still have one of those killers' phones that we haven’t been able to open," FBI Director James B. Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee. "It has been two months now and we are still working on it."
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WNU Editor: This is a surprise .... and an indication on how good encryption programs have become over the years.
5 comments:
Can we trust what the FBI say?
Why would they admit to such a failure if they were lying? It doesn't help their reputation in the slightest.
Why u say? To make people trust their smartphone and being less paranoid about government control. Also, if you got sensitive data wich is not good to show to the public is better to tell a lie rather then think to the reputation (we are talking about public security after all...)
Leave it with some 15 year old geeks for a week and job done.
Correct makes no sense at all for FBI to lie on this.
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