On: What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?

[njharman]

> They are still here to protect americans

That may be the charter of the the organization. But the individual people running the FBI goals are to 1) be reappointed / not get fired 2) continually expand their budget / power. Given US politics 1&2 are not always congruent esp in short term with "protecting americans".

[pdelbarba → njharman]

They were perfectly happy to use the vulnerabilities exploited by Stingray after all.

[anigbrowl → njharman]

Don't mix up the existence of incentives with the idea that you have insight into what people's goals are.

[Spooky23 → njharman]

Have you ever interacted with law enforcement on any professional basis?

They aren't like that at all.

[njharman → Spooky23]

1) yes, but with the "troops" and lower level managers.

2) the Director of the FBI (and other other high level managers) is much more of a political bureaucrat than they are a LEO.