Re:Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator
by thephyber on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:55PM
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TL;DR:
Facebook saw they had issues with a child predator who used Tor via Tails, so the FBI tried to hack him, but their de-anonymization failed on Tails. Facebook gets more concerned and commissions an 0day (for $$$$) and hands it to the FBI to do the work the FBI should have done.
FB has no guarantee that the FBI didn't keep using the exploit for the last 3 years for any other purpose.
Facebook saw they had issues with a child predator who used Tor via Tails, so the FBI tried to hack him, but their de-anonymization failed on Tails. Facebook gets more concerned and commissions an 0day (for $$$$) and hands it to the FBI to do the work the FBI should have done.
FB has no guarantee that the FBI didn't keep using the exploit for the last 3 years for any other purpose.