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发帖数: 11979 | 1 By Julia Edwards
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey
said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the
San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and
four months he has in his job.
According to figures from the FBI and the U.S. Office of Management and
Budget, Comey's annual salary as of January 2015 was $183,300. Without a
raise or bonus, Comey will make $1.34 million over the remainder of his job.
That suggests the FBI paid the largest ever publicized amount for a hacking
technique, given the most previously paid was $1 million by U.S. information
security company Zerodium to break into phones.
Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in London, Comey was asked by a
moderator how much the FBI paid for the software that eventually broke into
the iPhone.
"A lot. More than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven
years and four months for sure," Comey said. "But it was, in my view, worth
it."
The Justice Department said in March it had unlocked the San Bernardino
shooter's iPhone with the help of an unidentified third party and dropped
its case against Apple Inc (AAPL.O), ending a high-stakes legal clash but
leaving the broader fight over encryption unresolved.
Comey said the FBI will be able to use software used on the San Bernardino
phone on other 5C iPhones running IOS 9 software.
The FBI gained access to the iPhone used by Rizwan Farook, one of the
shooters who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California on Dec. 2.
The case raised the debate over whether technology companies' encryption
technologies protect privacy or endanger the public by blocking law
enforcement access to information.
(Reporting by Julia Edwards and Jim Finkle; Editing by Andrew Hay) |
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