FBI Admits It Uses Stingrays, Zero-Day Exploits (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Amy Hess, the head of the FBI's science and technology division has admitted that the FBI sometimes exploits zero-day vulnerabilities and uses stingrays to catch bad guys. Ars reports: "The admission came in a profile published Tuesday of Amy Hess, the FBI's executive assistant director for science and technology who oversees the bureau's Operational Technology Division. Besides touching on the use of zero-days—that is, attack code that exploits vulnerabilities that remain unpatched, and in most cases are unknown by the company or organization that designs the product—Tuesday's Washington Post article also makes passing mention of another hot-button controversy: the FBI's use of stingrays."

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You Could Have Prevented This

[Anonymous Coward]

And where are all those wonderful encryption and decentralisation technologies that you've been working on for the last decade oh collective computer nerddom? Oh I forgot. You spent the last 10 years jumping on the App/Tablet/Social-Media hypetrain, making fart buttons and twitter integrators and leaving fundamental issues in end user network security and privacy not only unresolved, but in an actively worse state than they were in to begin with.

The last major contribution of the collective security community to network security was its support for the destroying self-signed certs. Says it all really.