I took a photo of a rose bush and asked “what’s going on with this rose bush” which triggered a downgrade to Opus. It diagnosed it with rose rosette disease.
Right, but the question here is of the obvious short-term marketing benefit, which to me is not that obvious. I think that in the short term Apple has more to lose financially by not aiding the FBI in an emotionally-charged request than if they had silently complied, particularly if they end up losing the case.
It's not clear that it IS a short-term benefit. Poll results are mixed (although the wording has a significant impact on the results) and a leading presidential candidate is calling for a boycott of their products. Marketing campaigns tend to be less polarizing. Also, I would imagine that losing the case would negatively impact sales more than if they had quietly complied.
Bro (https://www.bro.org) is a network monitoring and protocol analysis framework that has been in development for roughly 15 years. Its name is a reference to "Big Brother" due to its ability to provide visibility into network traffic. The project also got a MOSS grant for $200K today. (http://blog.bro.org/2015/12/bro-receives-200k-grant-from-moz...) An employee from Mozilla gave a talk at BroCon this year describing how they use Bro. The video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGlTo9y7u88.