Shockingly, the FBI exaggerated the number of encrypted phones it can’t unlock

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Officials including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray have systematically repeated in speeches that the FBI was unable to unlock some 7,800 encrypted smartphones that were connected to crimes last year.

That number has been greatly exaggerated, it turns out, and it may be a lot closer to 1,000 or 2,000 devices.

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Shockingly, the FBI exaggerated the number of encrypted phones it can’t unlock originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 23 May 2018 at 15:21:43 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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