It sounds stupid or impossible. But how can LEOs and Criminals talk to each other? What is possible by talking to an enemy? From LEO side revealing nothing will dead end the conversation. But what to feed-in to build Partial Temporary Trust PTT on a mutual basis?
My brain is running fine. Dont call me stupid, I am not.
What I would find interesting is what exactly do you do.
You study every topic, and I mean every topic. No LE would need all that information about cars, drones, cell phones, 5G, LTE, getting signals up mountains, and the 100's of other topics. What is your specific area of expertise?
With regards to partial temporary trust (none of those warrant capitalization) you have made it abundantly clear that you wont talk with people who are not LE as they can be the enemy. To be perfectly frank, I am not sure what you would bring to the table as most of your threads talk about subjects that you are the sole interest in.
It sounds stupid or impossible. But how can LEOs and Criminals talk to each other? What is possible by talking to an enemy? From LEO side revealing nothing will dead end the conversation. But what to feed-in to build Partial Temporary Trust PTT on a mutual basis?
My brain is running fine. Dont call me stupid, I am not.
What is your specific area of expertise?
From what i have read is that he could be working for a "fun agency", there you do not only work on forensics, you also work with counter-forensics, tries to stay one step ahead of the competition by trying to figure out what a bad guy with lots of resources would do and then finding a solution that would be at least partly resilient to that.
Normally you would keep quiet and not stick out too much during employment and ask around in a smaller and less overt circles, and only after you have left the place you can put some details on Linkedin or FF.
*cough*
As for the topic There are these things called forums - and yes, even criminals use specific ones where they discuss details that the LEO/IC communities wants to know. It's called OSINT, some of us could write a series of books on this, going into technical and procedural details of how not to raise suspicion.
Digital Forensics is facing sooner or later Going Dark. Only flaws or exploits/0ds will enable to get out evidence. So it may will come a situation that LEOs have to buy 'tools' from criminals to get access. Buying today exploits in the Darknet is proof of this, its just a platform of anonymity between but reality is LEOs buying from Criminals.
Its not absurd to be prepared and think abou this today. If your lifestyle is to wait and start thinking if things occur is fine for you. But for sure you are not prepared and failed to use the time to prepare.
If you prefer your weekend chilloff, fine, all the best.
I don't get what is the real question ?! Prison sentence reduction agreements exist for a long time by now. It's a "something for something" communication between LE and criminals.
The question is How can LEOs and Criminals 'collaborate' on mutual interest? If LEOs need an exploit for a mobile OS in case of a live-threatening - worth life safeing - situation how can this happen? Both sides today would say Never.
But I am sure in case of an extreme unexptected emergency this situation will occur.
An example A U.S. investigator based in San Bernardino needs an exploit to unlock FAST!!! a locked mobile by exploit-based bypassing the security he has to buy it from a criminal which is a high-end hacker. Anonymity may helps, but may also fails. Imagine a transparent situation of LEO and Criminals e-handshake. The price should be low digit as LEO has to provide an unknown value in reverse. Otherwise the too high price will fail the deal and life has gone.
Its not about collaboration to reduce prison-time. Its about a fast deal within hours.
An example A U.S. investigator based in San Bernardino needs an exploit to unlock FAST!!! a locked mobile by exploit-based bypassing the security he has to buy it from a criminal which is a high-end hacker. Anonymity may helps, but may also fails. Imagine a transparent situation of LEO and Criminals e-handshake. The price should be low digit as LEO has to provide an unknown value in reverse. Otherwise the too high price will fail the deal and life has gone.
Its not about collaboration to reduce prison-time. Its about a fast deal within hours.
The exploit used in Bernardino was rumoured to be bought from a commercial vendor specializing in security software and not some criminal organisation. The harvest from that purchased exploit itself were rather slim, i think that case was a test and it could set a precedent for investments in exploits (cost vs reward) by government agencies… well, at least law enforcement without an unlimited black budget.
Regardless on where you are on the planet, it is fully possible for law enforcement and the IC community to work together, i know that this has happened when it comes to cracking crypto.
LEO and criminals communicate all the time, but it is always going to be a one-way flow of information for dozens of legitimate reasons.
I do not mean snitches delivering INT towards LEOs who are paying cash. See my description last post, this is the unsolved problem looming.
Mostly any worthy LEO infiltrates or has connections to the "underworld", but I think that your question regarding temporary trust can't be answered.
When there is a hard matter, you simply test the solution, no matter if the solution comes from a criminal or not. If the solution works, it doesn't matter if you got officially temporary trust or not )