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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.

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> 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.

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