FBI didn’t tell US targets as Russian hackers hunted emails
This is probably an unpopular opinion here, but I think the FBI cybercrime division should be completely defunded and shutdown.<p>A new federal agency with the sole focus of combating cybercrime should be created operating outside the DoJ.<p>The FBI treats cybercrime too much like a janitorial service. The special agents involved in cybercrime have only some general cybercrime training; their training is still overly broad, including firearms and combat training.<p>Part of the problem is that the FBI is also an intelligence organization, so information that feeds into the FBI is almost never disseminated outside the agency, and when it does it is almost always too late. Their reasoning is &quot;sources and methods&quot;.<p>What the Russians taught us in the 2016 Election is that it&#x27;s no longer enough to just _have_ information. You must act on it in innovative new ways. This disruptive behavior (a la Wikileaks) has turned the US IC on it&#x27;s head. If we had an agency with a sole focus on cybercrime investigation and prevention prior to the 2016 Election, we would probably have a different President right now.