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FBI locked out of 7,775 encrypted devices in 2017, says director

Posted on January 9, 2018 by pogowasright.org

Zack Whittaker reports:

The FBI said the number of encrypted devices that the FBI has been unable to access last year has risen.

FBI director Christopher Wray said in a conference Tuesday at Fordham University in New York that the agency couldn’t access 7,775 devices in 2017 because the contents were scrambled.

That’s up from over 6,900 in October.

Read more on ZDNet.

Category: SurveillanceU.S.

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