Talk about black markets

Posted Apr 11, 2012 12:45 UTC (Wed) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048)
In reply to: Talk about black markets by man_ls
Parent article: Security quotes of the week

Well, your government has a right to break into your house and confiscate your computers. That is not negotiable at this point in History (and pretty much at any point).

This is in some way fair: sometimes breaking into somebody's house is necessary to provide security for everybody else.

What's creepy about "legally" exploiting zero days exploits is that if the police breaks into my house at least I know it, I can require the police to show me why they did it, and I can arrange some kind of legal defense if I think I deserve it.

If the authorities "legally" break into my computer I have no notification at all... this is what makes me feel it's "plain wrong".