that's gotta be a shitty job to have. calling up pizza stores and swat teams and when your agent handlers ask you about it you just deny any knowledge unless they're really pressing you on how you got information (ips, phone #s, etc) from a hacker's retaliation mode, but then even if you tell them what you did to get info they just look the other way and the "off the record interview" gets pushed under the rug while denial of any knowledge gets spread around while working cases.
i mean every government is basically a huge mafia/gang so i suppose a ci wouldn't feel anything about busting people cause he's getting paid and feels he is in power by having high level contacts in the government.
still, i think the hacker ethos has always been to think for yourself and solve problems in science, not really what these people are up to trying to gather intelligence / communications to use in the law enforcement process. i've watched my share of spy movies and can understand that fbi/ss has got to be the biggest bureaucratic agency in america, right behind nsa/cia/dod.
i guess my only point is once you go ci, you're no longer a true hacker. there is nothing interesting in what you're doing while putting limits on what you're allowed to do.
so i guess it makes sense that they let you swat/firetruck/pizza people, because it makes you feel like a kid again and there is some level of excitement in watching things unfold IRL.
this is why i could never be a ci even if i ever got busted, already opposed to whitehat/greyhat and realize blackhat is really pushing the envelope in the arena anyways. us already conducts so much cyber espionage overseas the blackhat way, and i personally don't find anything reprehensible in it. but come on, firetrucking? not for me... i like finding cool and neat shit online and in mathematics. there is more appeal when you find something yourself than spoofing a phone # to call in a hostage scenario.
but i guess w/e they are paying you it must be worth it.


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