Your argument is limited to technical and political science concepts, and by limiting itself so, is correct. It is inapplicable to the real world.
Governments have used zero days. Most famously to use a zero day unlock an iPhone against a terrorist (whose house was ransacked by the news media). Less famously was to botch a legal case against a pedophile (amazingly, it would be possible to find and arrest nearly all pedophiles on Tor by burning half a million dollars in zero days). But the government didn’t want to release the zero day for Play Pen and Mozilla got involved in the case.
But Freedom Hosting’s zero day was discovered while it was being used. I think the government still uses zero days, but parallel constructs the evidence from them. This is policy making by mismanagement.
On face value, the government is involved in abhorrently irrational decision making. The government cannot be considered responsible enough to have zero days, but that’s an argument that will lead nowhere.
> Your argument is limited to technical and political science concepts, and by limiting itself so, is correct. It is inapplicable to the real world.
I read your post, but still have no idea why it's inapplicable in the real world. Could you explain that again? I think it's a very interesting discussion, so I'd like to actually understand your point.
>Farook destroyed his personal phone. The FBI wants access to his work phone. UPDATE: FBI locked themselves out of the iCloud account after it was seized.
>FBI already has huge amounts of data from the telco and Apple. This is almost certainly enough to rule out clear connection with any other terrorists.
>FBI is playing politics, very cynically and very adroitly.
I can’t clarify, I can only make disparaging statements saying the government hires incompetent people who can’t notice corruption in front of them, as a side result they mishandle everything and their bosses must work overtime not only to hide corruption from the public but to spin their employees incompetence as reasons to reduce the public’s civil liberties.
Governments have used zero days. Most famously to use a zero day unlock an iPhone against a terrorist (whose house was ransacked by the news media). Less famously was to botch a legal case against a pedophile (amazingly, it would be possible to find and arrest nearly all pedophiles on Tor by burning half a million dollars in zero days). But the government didn’t want to release the zero day for Play Pen and Mozilla got involved in the case.
But Freedom Hosting’s zero day was discovered while it was being used. I think the government still uses zero days, but parallel constructs the evidence from them. This is policy making by mismanagement.
On face value, the government is involved in abhorrently irrational decision making. The government cannot be considered responsible enough to have zero days, but that’s an argument that will lead nowhere.