They need to defund the FBI and split it in two, the counter intel people have run roughshod over the original mission.
I once (after making my whole thing for over fifteen years that I won't speak to the FBI because they beat my townsfolk and local journalists during the G20) walked into an FBI field office, handed them a stack of what are called CCR numbers, and described a series of serious issues with my local police department. The woman's eyes went wide and she promised to open a civil rights investigation, then they ghosted me like I was a bad tinder date (which, to be fair... I can be, but we're at work now dear, so do your job or don't DARE interfere with mine.)
They need to focus on believing victims and utilizing existing sources of investigation before they "express concern", especially considering some of their agents who obstructed on this issue literally ran up on Congress.
Conversely, I've seen folks the FBI claims they need these extraordinary measures for wander around conferences like Defcon, HOPE, and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium with their laptop unlocked like the venue was a hipster coffee shop.
(Not gonna name the guy, but he used to tweet a lot about opsec for someone who gets pilled up and runs around the venue loudly saying the N word with his laptop FULLY unlocked.)
Anyways... they need to rely more on human methods and less on computer intrusion, like the FBI agent who gave me my card back when I was an angry young man posting Facebook zero days on my blogspot.
(Apparently it creates a bit of an international incident if you find a way to spoof your location on Facebook, get angry they declined to interview your for a summer internship, and spoof your location as with the protesters when you're not retaking discrete math over the summer, and apparently in 2009 the best the FBI had was a guy who knew what IRC was and would basically just... do undercover stuff but on the computer? Guy couldn't even get the powerpoint to work when he came to speak at CMU, which I have, to be clear... never, ever attended. I just show up in Newell Simon occasionally to grab a refreshing grass jelly drink, ask lewd questions to the roboceptionist, and look at whatever posters folks decided to put in public view.)
Anyways, I'm not clear why we are listening to an agency staffed by criminals who misunderstand on purpose anytime their job involves anything other than messing up on purpose, but I'm speaking from the perspective of a lower middle class Appalachian thrust into these crypto wars by forces beyond my control :-)
I once (after making my whole thing for over fifteen years that I won't speak to the FBI because they beat my townsfolk and local journalists during the G20) walked into an FBI field office, handed them a stack of what are called CCR numbers, and described a series of serious issues with my local police department. The woman's eyes went wide and she promised to open a civil rights investigation, then they ghosted me like I was a bad tinder date (which, to be fair... I can be, but we're at work now dear, so do your job or don't DARE interfere with mine.)
They need to focus on believing victims and utilizing existing sources of investigation before they "express concern", especially considering some of their agents who obstructed on this issue literally ran up on Congress.
Conversely, I've seen folks the FBI claims they need these extraordinary measures for wander around conferences like Defcon, HOPE, and the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium with their laptop unlocked like the venue was a hipster coffee shop.
(Not gonna name the guy, but he used to tweet a lot about opsec for someone who gets pilled up and runs around the venue loudly saying the N word with his laptop FULLY unlocked.)
Anyways... they need to rely more on human methods and less on computer intrusion, like the FBI agent who gave me my card back when I was an angry young man posting Facebook zero days on my blogspot.
(Apparently it creates a bit of an international incident if you find a way to spoof your location on Facebook, get angry they declined to interview your for a summer internship, and spoof your location as with the protesters when you're not retaking discrete math over the summer, and apparently in 2009 the best the FBI had was a guy who knew what IRC was and would basically just... do undercover stuff but on the computer? Guy couldn't even get the powerpoint to work when he came to speak at CMU, which I have, to be clear... never, ever attended. I just show up in Newell Simon occasionally to grab a refreshing grass jelly drink, ask lewd questions to the roboceptionist, and look at whatever posters folks decided to put in public view.)
Anyways, I'm not clear why we are listening to an agency staffed by criminals who misunderstand on purpose anytime their job involves anything other than messing up on purpose, but I'm speaking from the perspective of a lower middle class Appalachian thrust into these crypto wars by forces beyond my control :-)