FBI Wants to Use Inept Terrorists to Compromise Data Security of U.S. Citizens

The Farook and Malik "terrorism" case has been all over the news (somehow finding a narrow slot in between coverage of Trump and Clinton in the presidential candidate debates), and Apple's resistance to FBI requests to create a back door into the IOS operating system has generated a certain amount of controversy...at least at CNN...over a company's responsibility in the face of rampant terrorism.

But wait! Could it be that the FBI is using a couple of workplace shooters as a smokescreen to advance the U.S. intelligence agenda to compromise the data security of U.S. citizens?

I hate to make light of tragedy, but I think it's a travesty for a government agency to leverage public fears in an attempt to force one of our largest providers of data security to give federal agencies carte blanche access to citizens' private data, when the FBI already has a crap ton of information on the criminals and their communications from telecommunications companies who freely divulged information about the criminals personal devices.

This may seem like a political statement, but it's definitely nerd and geek relevant because it goes to the heart of cybersecurity and how even the U.S. government uses social engineering to break into secure data.

Find more details at The Grugq's Medium article, Feeble Noise Pollution.