[HN Gopher] FBI, Fed Judge: Fighting Botnets Means Allowing FBI ...
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       FBI, Fed Judge: Fighting Botnets Means Allowing FBI Remote Installs
       on Computers
        
       Author : rntn
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-09-11 20:01 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.techdirt.com)
        
       | vuln wrote:
       | This is incredibly scary.
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       | I saw many in the infosec community cheering on the alphabet gang
       | re qakbot takedown.
       | 
       | The alphabet agencies have proved time and time again they cannot
       | be trusted with this type of power. Yet federal judges and secret
       | courts continue to rubber stamp.
        
       | RyanAdamas wrote:
       | At what point does this start being used to wipe the trail of
       | other agencies malicious actions via foreign proxies? How do we
       | know, with this level of unprecedented access and overreach that
       | the FBI isn't going to quickly become the domestic clean sweeper
       | for all other bad acting agencies chartered for foreign
       | surveillance and activity?
        
       | brucecrust wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
       | maerF0x0 wrote:
       | The issue here is the conflict of interest. They now have an
       | incentive to hoard 0days instead of having a moral responsibility
       | to responsible disclosure. We pay for them (the gov't) to
       | discover these things, and then they fail to protect us when they
       | know full well they exist.
       | 
       | IMO they should have to disclose 0days and using them between
       | disclosure and patch is an ethical grey zone.
        
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