>The FBI is STILL the bad guy, acting like criminals who won't disclose a potential vulnerability (which might as well not exists) to the manufacturer. There i

>The FBI is STILL the bad guy, acting like criminals who won't disclose a potential vulnerability (which might as well not exists) to the manufacturer. There is no obligation to disclose vulnerabilities. You are free to sell them to the highest bidder, including the government. The government has some damn good uses for them, see Stuxnet. Of course, big tech companies would love it to be required to disclose vulnerabilities. That way they get the whole security community's labor for free and don't have to pay bug bounties.