[smhenderson]

Powerful Hacking Tool view source

Even the FBI agent quoted in the article got it wrong, stating “allowed open source tools to be used to query data that should not be public.” - as if proprietary browsers don't provide a View Source feature, only "evil" open source tools. Maybe I'm reading too much into it and it's a minor mistake but given the context even a potentially innocuous statement like that rubs me the wrong way for being incorrect.

[ta3927590]

As anyone could probably guess, LEOs that do actual technical work are rarely the same ones talking to the public about that technical work. Thus what gets said to or published for the public is rarely reflective of the actual internal understanding.

[sblom]

Totally possible that an FBI agent would be using the intelligence community sense of "open source" meaning "publicly available", rather than the sense of "open source" that's the mode around here.

[Buttons840]

I like to point out that the Governor installed that powerful hacking software on his own computers!

[nsotelo]

I read this as a failure of the state for publishing information that "should not be public".