The Tor Project questioned the legality and ethical basis for the attack, and the collusion between a research institute and the FBI. "There is no indication yet that they had a warrant or any institutional oversight by Carnegie Mellon's Institutional Review Board," the group wrote in a statement. "We think it's unlikely they could have gotten a valid warrant for CMU's attack as conducted, since it was not narrowly tailored to target criminals or criminal activity, but instead appears to have indiscriminately targeted many users at once."
What's going to happen now that it's in the open? Will some heads roll? I sincerely doubt it as it seems to be par for the course in the good old US of A for their law enforcement agencies to basically do as they please without any reprimand and or recourse.
Bit off topic but I'm really glad to see the changes happening in Europe where Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are planning on setting up some data centres in Germany and some other European countries in order to get their user's data out of the US. Not that it will be any safer there but most of those countries at least follow due process.
Anybody see a trend forming in regards to tech firms relocating? Still early days but I'm very sure this trend will continue with more and more tech firms either relocating and or moving their data storage facilities out of the US.
People will find ways around this. How that they know, they will understand what they need to do. TOR VPNs.
This is a battle between the forces of good and evil. There are both good and evil, both within and outside of the FBI.
People should be free, as long as they don't hurt other people. Thus, the evil is mostly within the FBI.