Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
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Re: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
#2This appears to be the original article: https://www.vice.com/en/article/facebook-helped-fbi-hack-chi...
Re: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
#3Kudos to Facebook for identifying a novel way to capture this criminal.
But every time I read these types of articles, I am not shocked to learn about the folks working at these tech companies seemingly against working with law enforcement whatsoever.
If it was your child, wouldn’t you want to help rather than stand on principles?
That’s what gets me every time.
Re: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
#4Kudos to Facebook for identifying a novel way to capture this criminal. But every time I read these types of articles, I am not shocked to learn about the folks working at these tech companies seemingly against working with law enforcement whatsoever. If it was your child, wouldn’t you want to help rather than stand on principles? That’s what gets me every time.
- Which law enforcement agencies do you choose to work with?
- All of them?
- Just the US ones?
- What about employees who aren't US citizens?
- Which crimes are you happy to help enforce?
- To what extent are you happy to be used as a tool of the US criminal justice system?
- Do you want to enable the US government to have dragnet surveillance of the entire world?
Bear in mind, the US government is very keen on using it's power for economic advantage, and not just for criminal enforcement.
In some cases it's clear cut - it's clearly in Meta's interest to safeguard children on their platform.
In some cases it's clear that not co-operating is probably the right thing to do - e.g. protecting a journalist reporting on North Korea.
Re: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
#5Kudos to Facebook for identifying a novel way to capture this criminal. But every time I read these types of articles, I am not shocked to learn about the folks working at these tech companies seemingly against working with law enforcement whatsoever. If it was your child, wouldn’t you want to help rather than stand on principles? That’s what gets me every time.
You are surely not naive enough to think they will use this surveillance tool just against child predators, right?
Re: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
#6Kudos to Facebook for identifying a novel way to capture this criminal. But every time I read these types of articles, I am not shocked to learn about the folks working at these tech companies seemingly against working with law enforcement whatsoever. If it was your child, wouldn’t you want to help rather than stand on principles? That’s what gets me every time.
- Which law enforcement agencies do you choose to work with? - All of them? - Just the US ones? - What about employees who aren't US citizens? - Which crimes are you happy to help enforce? - To what extent are you happy to be used as a tool of the US criminal justice system? - Do you want to enable the US government to have dragnet surveillance of the entire world? Bear in mind, the US government is very keen on usin…
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Re: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
#7Please add a "(2020)" to the title, only noticed after reading this and looking for details about the actual vuln to check if I had something to update...
Re: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
#8Seems they sent a video with a trap in it, nice work by the FBI and Facebook and of course the victim who worked with the FBI to do this.
I think this is a better and easier way of finding these criminals then trying to pass laws to allow back-doors in the OS.
Interesting read
Re: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
#9Kudos to Facebook for identifying a novel way to capture this criminal. But every time I read these types of articles, I am not shocked to learn about the folks working at these tech companies seemingly against working with law enforcement whatsoever. If it was your child, wouldn’t you want to help rather than stand on principles? That’s what gets me every time.
- Which law enforcement agencies do you choose to work with? - All of them? - Just the US ones? - What about employees who aren't US citizens? - Which crimes are you happy to help enforce? - To what extent are you happy to be used as a tool of the US criminal justice system? - Do you want to enable the US government to have dragnet surveillance of the entire world? Bear in mind, the US government is very keen on usin…
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Re: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020)
#10As usual, very hard to take a stance on that kind of stuff.
Yes, satisfactory to see the FBI being able to catch that type of scum.
But at the same time I can't help thinking that next, it's going to be the UK governement hacking distros to find out from which IP you posted a meme on Twitter.