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That's a really long document to say that they weren't able to find much of anything. They think his bandwidth usage went up for a long time after he got a WhatsApp message from MbS' number and couldn't actually analyze any malware. I have to wonder why they'd hack him with a video flying their own flag.

The thing about the women looking similar is really reaching and doesn't make any sense. We already have other reports that Bezos' GF showed texts to her brother who sold them from other reports.

Finally, what's with really rich people sending their electronics to 3rd party security firms and not letting the Feds analyze anything directly? You'd think that if this was really some matter of national security or whatever, you'd want an investigation by people with subpoena power. But I guess that doesn't matter for some reason?

Private companies keep it closely guarded and destroy any copies of it after the job is done. You can be reasonably confident that it won’t leave the analysis laptops.

If you give it to the FBI, you have no guarantees. It’s property of the government and is archived and stored indefinitely as evidence. The FBI do not do private investigative services for important rich people, they investigate crimes.

> The FBI do not do private investigative services for important rich people, they investigate crimes.

I was under the distinct impression that hacking someone's phone was not legal.

EDIT: Also, I don't know about the FBI specifically, but I would expect there to be someone to investigate reports of foreign espionage. And I have a lot of questions about whether anything from this report can be used in court now, should they identify anyone who can be held accountable.

One last thing... isn't that also an implication that they think that keeping the contents of the phone secret is more important than national security? Just what else is on there?

Given the motivations of a private company or the FBI, who would you really choose? I'd go private with anything sensitive, they can't arrest me and they have a profit motive in protecting my data.

It would be odd for them to arrest Bezos for having his own phone hacked.

The only part I appreciated is the description of the preparation of the lab, which sounded quite good and proper.

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