> the Snowden/tin-hat wearing crowd who thinks the government is out to get everyone Insults are not good discussion. > The FBI's duty is to actually protect

> the Snowden/tin-hat wearing crowd who thinks the government is out to get everyone Insults are not good discussion. > The FBI's duty is to actually protect the public That includes protecting the public's communication from criminal eavesdropping, which they are undermining when they keep an exploit secret instead of responsibly disclosing it. The idea that they can keep it secret and nobody else will rediscover the exploit - and the "nobus" (nobody but us) attitude in general - is hubris. > not to protect the customers of a single corporation. I suggest reading older HN threads on this topic, because the fight against the FBI's order was not about a "single corporation".