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Re:What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? by njharman on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:30PM (#14169160)
> They are still here to protect americans

That may be the charter of the the organization. But the individual people running the FBI goals are to 1) be reappointed / not get fired 2) continually expand their budget / power. Given US politics 1&2 are not always congruent esp in short term with "protecting americans".

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Re:What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? by pdelbarba on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:34PM (#14169204)
They were perfectly happy to use the vulnerabilities exploited by Stingray after all.
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Re:What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? by anigbrowl on Friday April 21, 2017 @05:42PM (#14169654)
Don't mix up the existence of incentives with the idea that you have insight into what people's goals are.
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Re:What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? by Spooky23 on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:20PM (#14170629)
Have you ever interacted with law enforcement on any professional basis?

They aren't like that at all.

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Re:What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank? by njharman on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @08:50AM (#14192945)
1) yes, but with the "troops" and lower level managers.

2) the Director of the FBI (and other other high level managers) is much more of a political bureaucrat than they are a LEO.

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