back to article You know what's coming next: FBI is upset it can't get into Texas church gunman's smartphone

FBI agents investigating the murder-suicide of 26 people in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, have said they can't yet unlock the shooter's smartphone. In a press conference on Tuesday, special agent Chris Combs said that investigations into the motives and actions of the gunman was ongoing, but that his mobe …

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  1. Unicornpiss

    iPhone legislation

    That's now two unstable people that committed serious crimes and both had iPhones. Perhaps we need legislation to keep criminals from buying iPhones, or at least a cooling off period before being able to purchase one.

    Of course anyone that shelled out money for the iPhone X may need an additional cooling off period to keep them from purchasing a gun and doing violent acts after succumbing to buyers remorse after purchasing one.

  2. MachDiamond Silver badge

    crime vs. phones

    In the case of the San Berdo shooter, there were questions about affiliation with terrorist groups and after investigators screwed up and reset passwords for the associated iCloud account to the phone they were lost to figure out how to use any other avenue to investigate. I guess they become so used to gleaning data from phones that if they can't, they're stuck.

    In the case of this shooting, there doesn't seem to be any connection to a network of nutjobs, this whacko was most likely a solo act. If there is a question, why can't the FBI send a query to the NSA to have somebody look and listen to this guys cell phone recordings to see if there is anything there? Does the FBI need admissible evidence for something or are they just fishing? Obviously, they can't outright admit that the NSA is recording everybody's texts, meta data and voice calls even if it's widely suspected.

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