Agreed. I'd expect them to formally hire these people and have them working as teams with proper opsec and infrastructure provided for them entirely separate f

Agreed. I'd expect them to formally hire these people and have them working as teams with proper opsec and infrastructure provided for them entirely separate from their personal lives. Instead they're left to work in isolation from home, more vulnerable to recruitment, if anything just to be treated as part of something more. There's so much wrong with the situation the FBI is cultivating here. They basically treated this kid as a criminal turned informant as terms of his freedom. That's the level of concern for his and his family's safety they seemed to exercise from my read of the article. VPNs were his only cyber protection? For all we know he was phished in a targeted attack that uncovered his true identity and affiliations.