[p3opl3]

This is awesome - but they shouldn't have revealed the secret on how they caught them.. like 1000's of other offenders could land up making similar mistakes. It just makes sense to keep your mouth shut and keep on hunting.

[pawelduda]

I thought so too, but it actually wasn't the couch, brick or whatever. It was overconfidence and mistakes that were exploited and there is no patch for that

[globular-toast]

This is a common dilemma in intelligence. One of the most famous examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_telegram