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The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors
- andyzweb 14y ago"Never trust a traitor, not even one you create" -- Baron Von Harkonnen
- LatvjuAvs 14y agoFor your own safety ;)
- rdl 14y agoI think this is part of a sadness buffer underflow attack by the FBI.
- pi18n 14y agoWhy wouldn't they just have both?
- neumann_alfred 14y agoThe second someone works for the FBI, with that being their main motive and only plan, they may be a lot of things, but hardly a hacker. I guess everybody has their own definition, but to me this is like saying "water needs dry surfaces".
- cbs 14y agoEveryone sells out sometime. Is someone that believes in justice even in spite of an inelegant set of legal boundaries a particularly exceptional case?
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- stcredzero 14y agoConsidering that penetration testers are usually certain they'll find a new 0-day when they work on a new system, why bother with back doors?
- expodod 14y agoThis strategy has been working very well at DARPA. http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Personnel/Mr_Peiter_Zatko.aspx http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Personnel/Mr_Peiter_Zatko.... http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Personnel/Mr_Daniel_Roelker.aspx http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Personnel/Mr_Daniel_Roelke...
- peripetylabs 14y agoThe FBI and other organizations like it emphasize strong (blind) loyalty in their hiring criteria. That is the opposite of what makes someone a hacker. Even if a hacker did end up working for the FBI, he or she would be an asset, not an employee -- they would be handled no differently from gang snitches.