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Re:FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone by newjersey on Friday April 22, 2016 @04:51AM (#11547850)
Was there something on the phone what made it worth it? I don't know if I understand the hypocrisy of hn. We cry "oh humanity" when Ford pays $50k over sticker for a new Tesla car for reverse engineering but of course if the FBI does something then surely they were judicious with their purse strings.

Surely.

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Re:FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone by fweespee_ch on Friday April 22, 2016 @10:48AM (#11549582)
> Was there something on the phone what made it worth it?

It doesn't matter to me tbh. They want to investigate, they can.

I just don't want them to be able to "scale" their investigations like they seem to want so they can get into all encrypted communications without a serious financial hurdle because they'll abuse it.

> I don't know if I understand the hypocrisy of hn. We cry "oh humanity" when Ford pays $50k over sticker for a new Tesla car for reverse engineering but of course if the FBI does something then surely they were judicious with their purse strings.

I didn't. Generalizing like that is unhealthy because it causes you to make some silly assumptions.

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