Posted on 08/09/2019 3:24:38 PM PDT by mplc51
The FBI is having trouble unlocking Dayton mass murderer Connor Betts’ primary smartphone — and it may take years before they crack it.
Agency officials said during a congressional hearing this week that if Betts was using a six- to eight-digit PIN, it could take months or even years to crack the code, The Hill reported Friday.
“We don’t know when we are going to get into the phone,” FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich told House Democrats during one of several briefings on the mass shooting this week, the report said.
Agents unlocked one Samsung phone belonging to Betts, CBS News reported, but the killer had “multiple phones,” the outlet reported.
Betts opened fire with an assault rifle in Dayton’s trendy Oregon District on Sunday, killing nine people in 30 seconds before he was shot dead by police.
Among the dead was his 22-year-old sister, with whom he had been socializing at a local bar less than an hour before the shooting.
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Don’t they have the NSA’s phone number?
Easy peasy.
Even if they could they would bleach bit it. I do no not trust those bastards any futher than i could throw Peter the Stzrok. They brought it on themselves. F-em.
The only answer is to compromise the privacy of 340 million Americans to avert this.
BS plain and simple...
Not sure why anyone would trust the FIB to investigate anything.
Want to keep those records awag from a request by families or FOI journalists.
I guess the FBI could just say they don’t want to tell us anything. It would be simpler, and would blow over just as fast.
They found collusion with operatives that would implicate others in psy-ops programs. When every phone call, email, and text message is harvested in real time by the NSA, this claim is ridiculous.
Bingo.
FIB, covering for Antifa.
The story also says Betts had been “socializing with his sister” less than an hour before the shooting
That is chilling.
I guess I’m surprised that don’t have lab guys who can disassemble it and read the chips.
I read somewhere in the last day or two that his “sister” was a transgender woman, AKA a biological male. Anyone else see any corroboration on this?
Don’t they communicate with NSA?
The FBI is LYING to everyone, the NSA has a backdoor or way in to EVERYTHING Electronic. Not only that, the NSA has backups(metadata) of EVERYTHING that Phone ever did, including yours and mine.
The FBI is up to the same old tricks.
They honestly have no shame.
Second time the FBI is trying to unlock a smartphone.
Maybe they want any Antifa types he was in contact with to feel secure. Just no telling with the FeeBs.
I use a 12 digit pin just for the fun of it.
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