Cybersecurity
FBI's Apple Hack Cost More Than a Million Dollars
- Cost of getting into terrorist's phone `worth it,' Comey says
- FBI director's total salary was about $183,000 last year
Encryption Debate Moves From Courts to Capitol Hill
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The FBI’s hack into a terrorist’s iPhone didn’t come cheap.
FBI Director James Comey said the U.S. paid more than he will make in salary over the rest of his term to secure a hacking tool to break into a mobile phone used by a dead terrorist in the San Bernardino, California, attack last year. The purchase ended one dispute with Apple Inc. over accessing mobile phones with increasingly sophisticated encryption software that is stymieing law enforcement officials across the U.S.