You've fallen right into their hands
"I am withdrawing from dealing with the NCSC [UK National Cyber Security Centre] and sharing all threat intelligence data and new techniques until this situation is resolved," said fellow UK researcher Kevin Beaumont.
Maybe that's what the FBI wants. The whole intelligence community (at least in the US) has to have some egg on their face after the leak of some of their exploits (and the application of those exploits by various malware applications). Perhaps the FBI is bullying security folks on behalf of the CIA, NSA, etc... If nothing else, those agencies need some new vulnerabilities to exploit, and having a bunch of white hats find those vulns and report them to the public or the software manufacturers only makes their jobs harder.
The enemy of the state is the free flow of information.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
