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Sadly if you p*ss off the government, or some government *sshole wants to f*ck with you for all practical purposes they have almost unlimited resources to use to screw you over with.

My point is don't say anything on the internet or on your telephone that you wouldn't mind the pigs hearing. Even if you encrypt it the pigs have almost unlimited resources to attack you with.

And it's not THEIR money they are spending, it's YOUR tax dollars they are spending. So they could care less how much it costs other people to f*ck with you.

Source

Phone hack cost FBI about $1M

POSTED: 04/22/2016 04:56:50 AM PDT UPDATED: 04/22/2016 04:56:54 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- FBI Director James Comey hinted at an event Thursday in London that the FBI paid more than $1 million to break into the locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers.

"We paid a lot," Comey said. "But it was worth it."

Comey was asked during a question-and-answer session at an Aspen Security Forum event how much the FBI paid for the method from an unidentified third-party to access the phone.

He did not give a precise number but said it was "more than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven years and four months, for sure."

The Justice Department last month revealed that an entity outside the government had approached it with a method that could be used to open the phone used by Syed Farook, who along with his wife killed 14 people in the December attacks before dying in a police shootout.

The revelation came after a federal magistrate had directed Apple to help the FBI hack into the phone. The FBI had said that it wanted access to the phone as part of its investigation into the attacks.

The FBI has not disclosed the identity of the party who helped it crack into the device.

A law enforcement official has said that investigators found nothing of significance

In February, the Justice Department obtained the court order compelling Apple to help investigators bypass the device's security features in a way that wouldn't automatically erase its contents. Apple refused and the ensuing court fight generated a heated controversy that pitted the Justice Department and other law enforcement officials against privacy advocates and major technology companies who fear creating "backdoors" into their products.

The FBI last month abruptly dropped the case when it was approached by the unidentified third party that had found a way to circumvent the phone's security features.

Comey and other top Justice Department officials credited publicity surrounding the court clash with spurring outside groups to try to hack into the phone.

The Los Angeles Times contributed to this report.

"We paid a lot, but it was worth it." [We paid a lot??? FBI director James Comey didn't spend a penny of HIS money, FBI director James Comey spent a million dollars of YOUR money ]

-- James Comey, FBI director