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Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by JohnFen on Thursday October 31, 2019 @03:56PM (#21413025)
> How many people actually worry about these spy agencies?

I don't really worry about the spy agencies themselves -- I am not of any interest to them.

However, I worry a lot about the likes of NSO and the tools they produce. They are likely to end up being used, in one form or another, by criminals and corporations.

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Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by wp381640 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @05:35PM (#21413931)
These tools keep authoritarians in power and indirectly impact hundres of millions of people. It's like saying you don't care about pacific ocean plastic because you live on the east coast.
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Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by JohnFen on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:22PM (#21414808)
> These tools keep authoritarians in power

Indeed. I think I covered that in "criminal" category, but perhaps I should have been more explicit.

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Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by heavenlyblue on Thursday October 31, 2019 @06:53PM (#21414602)
How’s that different from selling weapons to them, though?
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Re:NSO hacked WhatsApp to spy on top government officials at... by wp381640 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @08:12PM (#21415118)
It's not - we shouldn't be selling weapons to them either. Ditto with sharing intel.

Sanctions on selling exploits seems easier to achieve though since there is less of a conflict with economic interests

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