The fact that the police did not make use of this information might be more a reflection of a legal opinion that, since the information was arguably controlled by the state, the information was provided pursuant to state authority and, if privacy issues were raised before the Courts, it could potentially be excluded as having been wrongfully obtained by the government.
But more importantly, I argued that the primarily defensive focus of the strategy is a reflection of more problematic underlying assumptions about the nature of both cyberspace and information.
In this series of posts, I will argue that the core problem plaguing the strategy is that the focus on defense is a reflection of more problematic underlying assumptions about the nature of both cyberspace and information.