[lucasRW]

As usual, very hard to take a stance on that kind of stuff.

Yes, satisfactory to see the FBI being able to catch that type of scum.

But at the same time I can't help thinking that next, it's going to be the UK governement hacking distros to find out from which IP you posted a meme on Twitter.

[mingus88]

For every feel good story we hear of the bad guys getting caught, you bet there are dozens of stories in that murky grey area where we really don’t think either side are the good guys.

[big-green-man]

Well as others have pointed out, it's one thing to deliberately engineer a backdoor, its another to find an exploit in an existing system and then use it to stop a scumbag from hurting people. One is a total violation of someone's privacy and expectation, another is simply good ol police work.

So I'm happy with this outcome and even not opposed to the procedure, but I'm very much against deliberately engineering backdoors in systems. I think that position is pretty consistent and sound.