Best would have been to feed the phisher wrong information and observe the results. You need to see where the information goes beyond this moron. Getting him slapped for it is of minor importance. Could have used the news article from the FBI with the enclosed malware to trace the real IP's

Standard Intelligence Agencies practice i would say.

What amazes me most, but is probably because i'm getting old is:

looking at the announcement, it seems like the SATA drive is just an obligatory part of the line-up. Its all M.2 and PCIe.

Sure, SATA is getting old quickly and starts to become the bottleneck, but the way this is going, motherboards will soon have some SATA port somewhere for the occasional DVD / old spinning drive, and M.2 for the rest. Did i just recently buy my last SATA drives to fill up my NAS? I'm not planning on buying more for the next couple of years.

Man, i remember buying my first ATA drive. And i was late to the party, it already was a stunning 20MB (imagine how many WP files were needed to fill that sucker up to the rim). And man, that thing was fast as lightning! ;-)

Most likely the mice from the experiment were inbred. So no trouble mixing blood.

After transfusion of 10 human donors you are likely going to develop antibodies.

Someone at Apple must have realized that it wouldn't look good when competitors were to have more RAM than iPhone would have in storage Flash. (OnePlus 3 having 6G, likely to start a race to the top)

So Yes, it was time to raise the minimum amount of storage.

I think we can conclude the business model of advertising paying for content is currently failing.
Users are overwhelmed with advertising, but spend only so much. Solution: more advertising.

So now it seems like 90% of the bits is download to read some information, is not the information itself, but adverts and tracking shit. What's next year, 98%, 99.9%?
At what point will this model fail. Or, already has, as apparently malware is needed to boost the income.

Adblockers will be seen as the solution to evade this malware, more decline, more adverts, repeat ad nauseam, till it crashes. I can hear the front of the bus crushable wrinkle already. Listen carefully, you can hear it too.........

I don't want to be the one patronizing all you "helpful experts" suggesting wonderful alternative methods to get rid of (execute) your inmates. History has taught us endless options to end the life of fellow humans, there is no shortage at all, lest the need for more.

But a large part of the rest of this planet frowns upon this fixation and desire to implement the death penalty. I wouldn't hurt to look in your mirror critically and realize in what good company you guys are (think Saudi Arabia, Iran north Korea etc)

Please, use you're knowledge and good judgement, your academic independent view, to suggest options for the US to join the rest of the civilised world and to abolish the death penalty.
What you guys really need is a more humane society, not a more efficient way to kill humans. You already excel in that subject.

What keeps you from having another copy hidden even better from the man?

Mr Snowden was travelling the world with very dangerous and valuable information. Lets say the Chinese caught him and started to ask him questions in a rigorous manner? After a short time the drive would have become completely valueless.

On could imagine a service that is time dependant

Like, you have to log in every three months, or everything is deleted forever. That would be the only place, where a paraphrase is stored that is so complex you cant be expected to be able to remember.

You don't even have to actively use the service.

You just wait three months, than you say: "well I was using this service called KorsakovOnline.com, but they seem to have completely forgotten that i used their service and now they have deleted my profile and data, and they dont keep backups you know. So now its up to you to prove that i am even capable of providing the password."

Your move Mr Prosecutor