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The FBI can’t unlock the Texas church shooter’s phone
Yahoo News ^ | 11/7/2017 | David Lumb

Posted on 11/07/2017 2:05:20 PM PST by detective

At a press conference today, an FBI official investigating the man who killed 26 people in a Texas church on Sunday said the agency can't open the shooter's encrypted phone. The agent painted the issue as a growing concern among law enforcement at all levels who can't access data on devices without their owner's credentials. It's essentially the same argument the FBI made two years ago when it demanded Apple help break into the phone of the San Bernardino shooter, a conflict that escalated into the courtroom.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: antifa; apple; bamn; devinpatrickkelley; encryption; fbi; iphone
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To: Mariner

20 tech professional here, you are exactly correct.


81 posted on 11/07/2017 3:01:49 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

They admit to a total of 151 million records, they don’t admit to thousands or tens of thousands of records on all of the 350 million or so people in the US alone.


82 posted on 11/07/2017 3:01:54 PM PST by null and void (The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

“They need those guys on NCIS New Orleans.”

or just give the phone to McGee.


83 posted on 11/07/2017 3:03:06 PM PST by missthethunder
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To: detective

Funny how they’re not jonesing to unlock the vegas shooter’s phone - or background.


84 posted on 11/07/2017 3:05:25 PM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We Fix America)
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To: detective

Give it to a 4 year old.


85 posted on 11/07/2017 3:06:56 PM PST by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: Responsibility2nd

And what did the FBI do before Smart phones? Interview. Whatever a phone has, it’s inferior to what can be gained by interviewing.


86 posted on 11/07/2017 3:08:27 PM PST by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: G Larry; Chode

Did they try “FBI” ?

Sometimes things are just too obvious.


87 posted on 11/07/2017 3:10:30 PM PST by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: Salvavida

“And what did the FBI do before Smart phones?”

Gee, I don’t know. How did we text before smart phones?

Interviewing is great. Start by interviewing the contacts, calls, texts, emails, voicemails, photos, downloads, saved and stored media on the sim card, and 10-15 other ideas that haven’t come to me yet.

I daresay a smartphone knows more about you than a spouse.


88 posted on 11/07/2017 3:14:54 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: caligatrux

“I have a hard time believing the FBI can’t break into a suspect’s cellphone.”

If the FBI can’t unlock the phone, no doubt the NSA has digital recordings of all conversations made with the phone.


89 posted on 11/07/2017 3:18:11 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: detective

FBI unable to unlock bread drawer..they then demand Pillsbury Dough Boy give them the keys.


90 posted on 11/07/2017 3:18:27 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Mariner

Yes.


91 posted on 11/07/2017 3:19:32 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Not me, but I’m boring as all get out.

I fail to see the profit of investigating someone who was a known quantity by everyone who knew him, yet no one did anything to talk him to sanity.

92 posted on 11/07/2017 3:21:04 PM PST by Salvavida (The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
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To: detective

And the problem is?


93 posted on 11/07/2017 3:22:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: null and void

This IS the same FBI that can pick the lock on Manford’s house.


94 posted on 11/07/2017 3:22:46 PM PST by sportutegrl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“....yet no one did anything to talk him to sanity.”

They tried. But reports are out today that he even escaped from a mental facility.

Sick. Our sick society is responsible for these living sacks of garbage. Yet we can’t take a stand for whats right without being labeled as racists, bigots, homophobes, intolerant, or what have you.


95 posted on 11/07/2017 3:26:43 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: MayflowerMadam

“It took a while, but I think that finally happened with the husband-wife Muslim murderers in the Pacific northwest.”

As I recall, a company in Israel unlocked that phone. BTW, San Bernardino is in Southern California not the Pacific Northwest, if you are referring to the shooting rampage I think you are.


96 posted on 11/07/2017 3:27:47 PM PST by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: detective

I guess it’s an old phone, and they cannot just use his fingerprint.


97 posted on 11/07/2017 3:27:50 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Yaelle; DesertRhino

I say give me the phone and the dead killer. I will put his hand under my arm for two minutes— bingo 98.6.


98 posted on 11/07/2017 3:30:45 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke; Yaelle; DesertRhino

I wonder if they put him on a Cardiopulmonary bypass (heart/lung machine) and got a forced rhythm, if that would fool the touch sensor?

Maybe Mythbusters could try that sometime.


99 posted on 11/07/2017 3:34:05 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: detective

Oh BS.
When the FBI says they can’t, they don’t want to.


100 posted on 11/07/2017 3:34:11 PM PST by hadaclueonce (This time I am Deplorable)
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