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wait. so if you are hacked, then the government has a free pass to hack you as well? Why do all the reasons that come to mind right now fit in the 'bad idea' bu

• jmclnx 3y ago
  no kidding, # 1 reason, people will stop reporting hack.
• t0mas88 3y ago
  That's not how it works. It's not "when you report a hack the government can now hack you at will". It is: When an intelligence agency with a legal warrant to monitor another entity that's a severe enough threat to national security sees that entity hack you, they can follow along and monitor communication from the hacked machine and/or hack into it themselves. If enough precautions are taken to limit impact on the victim's privacy and only if their right to privacy is less important than the national security risk the original target poses if not doing so. Source: Read the source doc in Dutch, it's far more nuanced than the English blog post.
  • Solvency 3y ago
    All you did was use a bunch of words to revise their statement to "when you don't report a hack, the government can hack you at will."
    • nottorp 3y ago
      Actually the way t0mas phrased it looks pretty reasonable. And the stuff about reporting makes no sense. Victims of hacks perpetrated by some entity that's worth a national security warrant will most likely not notice they're hacked.