> But since the government tends to want to investigate all crimes it is capable of investigating, a criminal can easily create a situation where the costs invo

> But since the government tends to want to investigate all crimes it is capable of investigating, a criminal can easily create a situation where the costs involved with a prosecution (disclosing a sensitive technique, causing people to update opsec accordingly) outweigh the benefits (prosecuting a small time criminal). This is the part I'm disputing. If a criminal could reasonably control what evidence is available to the government, a better and less risky strategy is to give them no evidence rather than to give them evidence that they don't want to use.