The FBI was unable to access the contents of nearly half of mobile devices it tried to hack in the first half of the fiscal year, FBI Director James Comey revealed at a Senate oversight committee hearing this week.That added up to more than 3,000 mobile devices.In a written statement, Comey said that the FBI was unable to gain access to mobile devices using, appropriate and available technical tools, even though there was the legal authority to do so. Comey didnt reveal how many of these cases related to counterterrorism. Nor did he reveal whoch handsets the FBI has difficulty accessing.Although the FBI has been able to unlock devices, including iPhones, in the past using case-by-case investigative workarounds, he noted that these have the problem of being both, difficult to scale and perishable due to a short technical lifecycle.
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