The agency admitted this week that number is significantly inflated. FBI Director Christopher Wray has been citing the agency’s inability to access more than 7,000 devices due to encryption last year as evidence of the agency’s Going Dark problem. The agency plans to do an audit to determine of the exact number. The FBI acknowledged that it isn’t entirely sure at this time how many devices actually did lock out investigators, though a rough estimate is about 1,200, according to the report. “The FBI’s initial assessment is that programming errors resulted in significant over-counting of mobile devices reported,” the agency–which realized the error about a month ago–said in the statement. The FBI claimed that its investigators were locked out of nearly 7,800 devices connected to crimes last year when actually the more accurate number was between 1,000 and 2,000, according to a published report in The Washington Post. The FBI has mislead Congress and the public about the extent to which encrypted cellphones are hampering federal investigations by preventing authorities from accessing the devices–presumably to support the agency’s own agenda to gain backdoor access to them. ![]() ![]() Mobile phones can be tracked even when GPS and WiFi have been disabled, researchers have shown.
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