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How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Yes. It’s not a news article. The article is promoting a podcast of an interview with someone who wrote a book about that story. You know sometimes books are about things that happened in the past.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

You know sometimes books are about things that happened in the past.

Big if true

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

It's by Joseph Cox who did a lot of reporting on the phone while they were at Motherboard. Quite good tech journalist.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

You know sometimes books are about things that happened in the past.

Only if the book has pictures in it. Otherwise those things didn't happen.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So it's an ad, then? That's even worse.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

It is technically a news article, it's just by a guest writer who is writing an abridged version of what they covered in their podcast.

You can calm down. The content won't hurt you.