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A comment on Zerodium offers $100k for a RCE in Pidgin, who received $25k donation this year. Parent comment

Re:Zerodium offers $100k for a RCE in Pidgin, who received $... by tedunangst on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:02PM (#27373381)
How do you think warrants work? The police suspect Criminal Charlie of organizing a crime using pidgin, so they get a warrant, then they give the warrant to Charlie? "Please remember to cc us on all your criminal plans. Thanks."
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Re:Zerodium offers $100k for a RCE in Pidgin, who received $... by throwaway481048 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:01PM (#27375955)
The issue isn’t about the warrant but the over breadth of the method for getting the desired information as it can leave other users vulnerable. Whether they have a warrant or not, this seems like overkill, because they could obtain said info in a much more straightforward way, assuming they have probable cause.
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