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by SturgeonsLaw 2199 days ago
And paid six figures for outside help. The FBI's approach "was not tailored for Tails" - surely if they had any approach that would work they would use it.

If the government couldn't break in to Tails and required the outside help of two well-resourced organisations to find (and burn) a single exploit then overall that seems a pretty good endorsement of the security of a volunteer open-source project.
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asdfasdf12124 2198 days ago
> If the government couldn't break in to Tails

Or they didn't want to. Now we all know it costs a measly "six figures" (100k??) to zero day a system used by journalists and activists.

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blaser-waffle 2198 days ago
Thats 100k for Facebook. They have the ability to find these white- or black-hat folks, and pay them. For you, random dude or dudette on the street, that might be a little more expensive.

I would assume a huge, IT-focused org like FB already has 3-4 high-end security orgs doing pen-testing and digging for zero-days in their code; they just poured a little sugar on top of an existing contract to help squash this one online predator douche.

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