Judge throws out evidence obtained from warrantless FBI hack.
FBI found nothing of use on terrorist's iPhone.
"Jenna McLaughin summed up in a February 26 The Intercept article what seemed to be the FBI’s real motivation in seeking the court order: “It’s becoming increasingly clear that law enforcement doesn’t really think there’s any important data on San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone and that it has more precedent-setting value than investigative value.” McLaughlin then proceeds in her article to detail several reasons to believe there would be little to no investigative benefit gained from overcoming the iPhone’s security. Among other reasons, McLaughlin notes that the FBI already had “plenty of phone data, none of which indicated any overseas terror connection;” that the local police chief had said there was “a reasonably good chance that there is nothing of any value on the phone;” and that the iPhone was Farook’s employer-owned work phone that — unlike his laptop computer and two personal phones — he had not bothered to demolish."Yep.
Contrary to early reports, FBI paid over $1 million for iPhone hack.
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