https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/06/2256257/fbi-telling-congress-how-it-... According to a new report in National Journal, the FBI has already briefed Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) on the methods used to break into the iPhone at the center of Apple's recent legal fight. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) is also scheduled to be briefed on the topic in the days to come. TOP SECRET briefings to the two most worthless SECRET critters, at the top of the most worthless SECRET committee... is worthless to the people. And that's no SECRET. Yet somehow people continue to treat that as... notice served, all absolved. Don't forget... Torture, Murder, Surveillance, Databasing all supposedly went through that committee of the guilty too. Feinstein and Burr are both working on a new bill to limit the use of encryption in consumer technology, expected to be made public in the weeks to come. Much of the USA, online, even the world seem to be rather pissed with the stance and activities of the US Government against crypto. Cryptos should not just be in their own circles, but educating those they know... random public around them... that do not already know about the crypto / privacy issues, the things that haven't made the nightly news, etc. The battle against the second coming of Clipper is going to get uglier and riskier before it gets better. In part because new lawmaking is at stake, not just interpretation over old. Supposedly an educated populace has more influence over new laws than interpretation... The disclosures come amid widespread calls for the attack to be made public, particularly from privacy and technology groups. However the FBI's new method works, the ability to unlock an iPhone without knowing its passcode represents a significant break in Apple's security measures, one Apple would surely like to protect against.