Related: the video "Why The Cops Won't Help You When You're Getting Stabbed" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfUI_hETy0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAfUI_hETy0</a><p>TL;DW: In the US, the police owes you no protection. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzale...</a>
I don't like this. To analogize this to a medical problem-- it would be severely unethical for a doctor to withhold proven treatment in order to study the course of a disease.<p>The FBI shouldn't continue to victimize for a (failed) chance at stopping the perpetrators.
I am not sure I see a huge issue here. The FBI does similar things when investigating any other criminal enterprise. Sometimes it's difficult to weigh the short term benefit against a potentially larger longer term benefit.
I trust our government's tech and hacking capabilities as much as I trust politicians to ensure that ISPs are held accountable for subsidies and grants.