FBI Makes Official Its Decision to Keep Apple iPhone Hack Secret

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

The FBI has made official its decision against submitting the method used to hack into a dead terrorist’s iPhone to a government review that would determine whether it should be shared with Apple Inc. or the public.

Although the FBI paid more than $1.3 million for the method, Amy Hess, the agency’s executive assistant director for science and technology, said Wednesday that it didn’t purchase the rights to the technical details and therefore doesn’t have the necessary information to submit the method for an Obama administration review known as the Vulnerabilities Equities Process.

"The FBI assesses that it cannot submit the method to the VEP," Hess said in a statement. "We do not have enough technical information about any vulnerability that would permit any meaningful review.”

The FBI has faced questions about whether it would submit the method for a review in which officials from multiple agencies determine whether newly discovered computer security flaws should be disclosed to companies and the public so that they can be fixed.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-04-27/fbi-makes-official-its-decision-to-keep-apple-iphone-hack-secret

[Indydem]

1. Hopefully Apple already knows.

If not, they can surely pay an additional $1.3 million to find out for themselves.

Then they can eliminate the hole in iOS 10.0