> That should not be allowed. Police should give discloser.

This obviously cannot be a boundary condition for policing; it's adversarial. The question is whether this balances public needs against private rights. My gut feeling is the extensions should require court approval or disclosure.

It is an adversarial game. The hackers could plant fake victims as monitors for police activities. This is an important reason why the police can't disclose to the victims that they were hacked or how they were hacked. However, I think we could at least make the laws such that the police can disclose certain information upon request post mortem. Absolutely not during investigation.