Did any of the commenters here actually read the article?<p><i>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.
&quot;The FBI assesses that it cannot submit the method to the VEP,&quot; Hess said in a statement. &quot;We do not have enough technical information about any vulnerability that would permit any meaningful review.”<p>...<p>The law enforcement agency bought the hacking tool from an entity it hasn’t identified and then used it to access data on an encrypted iPhone</i><p>It sounds like the FBI doesn&#x27;t actually understand the details of how the crack worked and was hand-holded through the process.