The FBI does not have to disclose the name of or how much it paid a secret firm to crack Apple ’s iPhone security , U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled on Saturday .
PerPolitico , USA Today , the Associated Press and Vice Media were all action the FBI to force it to give away more details about the caller under the Freedom of Information Act . The FBI turn to the anon. house in 2016 after Apple refuse its asking to serve it go around the security department on an iPhone 5C belong to one of the perpetrators of the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino , California ; the massacre result in the deaths of 14 victims and two shooters , as well as 22 injury .
Judge Chutkan ruled the government does not have to disclose any further details about the hack , saying they were certificate arcanum and thus exempt from FOIA access :
In herruling , free Saturday night , Chutkan said the name of the firm that cope to collapse the iPhone and the Leontyne Price give to do so are properly classify national security arcanum and constitute intelligence sources or method that can also be withheld on that ground . She also ruled that the amount paid for the taxi reflects a confidential law enforcement technique or function that is nontaxable from revelation under FOIA .
While the FBI will not be show its receipt , Sen. Dianne Feinstein might have accidentally give away a$900,000 price tagfor the break - in sooner this yr ( though former FBI Director James Comey hint at a total in the million ) .
The FBI insisted Apple was the only company capable of collapse iPhone security measures , crusade the technical school behemoth in homage before abruptly settle to pursue another option . Some report card have suggested the firm in dubiousness was actually agroup of hackerswho identified a zero - 24-hour interval exploit , though all that is really known is the FBI received bidsfrom at least three companieswhich lacked the “ ability to come up with a root fast enough for the FBI ” before turning to an anonymous vendor with which it signed a non - disclosure agreement .
[ Politico ]
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